The School and Society 
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A NEW AND IMPORTANT BOOK 
HN D 
Professor of Pedagogy in the University of Chicago 
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The educational situation has nowhere been so clearly 
stated nor so graphically illustrated as in the odd hundred 
pages of Professor Joun Dewey’s new book. The problem 
of elementary education is one that forces itself not only 
on teachers and school boards, but is felt with continu- 
ously growing anxiety by the parents. The “fads and 
frills’ of the Public School— Nature Study, Manual 
Training, Cooking, and Sewing—remain despite their 
critics, but they cannot be assimilated. Professor DEWEY 
gives a most luminous statement of the meaning of these 
branches for the school and for life. It has been his good 
fortune to have stepped out of the field of theoretical 
pedagogy and to stand upon the successful results of three 
years’ experimentation in the Elementary School of the 
University of Chicago. This school, instituted as a labora- 
tory of the Pedagogical Department, has been the subject 
of innumerable inquiries, and many unintelligent criticisms. 
The ideas behind it and the methods of applying them 
are presented here in a style neither abstruse nor techni- 
cal. Being originally lectures delivered before a popular 
audience, and reaching publication as a result of the inter- 
€st excited there, the public has the guarantee of their 
interest and comprehensibility for all who feel the responsi- 
bility of bringing the meaning of life home to the child. 
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