THE SCHOOL AND SOCIETY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS [Illustration] THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY NEW YORK THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON _The_ SCHOOL _and_ SOCIETY _By_ JOHN DEWEY REVISED EDITION [Illustration] THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO · ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT 1900 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COPYRIGHT 1900 AND 1915 BY JOHN DEWEY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1899 SECOND EDITION AUGUST 1915 FIFTEENTH IMPRESSION JULY 1942 [Illustration] COMPOSED AND PRINTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. TO MRS. EMMONS BLAINE TO WHOSE INTEREST IN EDUCATIONAL REFORM THE APPEARANCE OF THIS BOOK IS DUE CONTENTS PAGE I. THE SCHOOL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 3 II. THE SCHOOL AND THE LIFE OF THE CHILD 31 III. WASTE IN EDUCATION 59 IV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 87 V. FROEBEL’S EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES 111 VI. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONS 131 VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTENTION 141 VIII. THE AIM OF HISTORY IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 155 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE DRAWING OF A CAVE AND TREES 40 DRAWING OF A FOREST 42 DRAWING OF HANDS SPINNING 44 DRAWING OF A GIRL SPINNING 46 PUBLISHER’S NOTE The first three chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before an audience of parents and others interested in the University Elementary School, in the month of April of the year 1899. Mr. Dewey revised them in part from a stenographic report, and unimportant changes and the slight adaptations necessary for the press have been made in his absence. The lectures retain therefore the unstudied character as well as the power of the spoken word. As they imply more or less familiarity with the work of the Elementary School, Mr. Dewey’s supplementary statement of this has been added. AUTHOR’S NOTE