...already well known and widely read in this country, Professor John Dewey's ' School and Society ' : The obvious fact is that our social life has undergone...complete transformation. This transformation ... is already in progress. The introduction of active occupations, of nature study, of elementary science,...

...together if the right results are to be secured. " Our social life," an American thinker writes, " has undergone a thorough and radical change. If our...equally complete transformation. This transformation is already in progress. . . The Introduction of active occupations, of nature study, of elementary science,...

...such, all these materials and methods would be welcome, would be greeted with the utmost hospitality. But why should I make this labored presentation? The...conscious purpose. It is already in progress. Those modif1cations of our school system which often appear (even to those most actively concerned with them,...

...such, all these materials and methods would be welcome, would be greeted with the utmost hospitality. But why should I make this labored presentation? The...for life, it must pass through an equally complete _Uanaformation_ . This transformation is not something to appear suddenly, to be executed in a day...

...the commandment : "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." AMERICAN IDEALS IN 1900 BY JOHN DEWEY25 The obvious fact is that our social life has undergone...must pass through an equally complete transformation. . . . The introduction of active occupations, of nature study, of elementary science, of art, of history,...

..."The obvious fact," he wrote, speaking about the new (and, it now seemed, permanent) working class, "is that our social life has undergone a thorough...must pass through an equally complete transformation" (p. 28). This transformation would bring the schools into correspondence with "present social needs"...

...the structure of the societal system within which education and democracy can interact successfully: "If our education is to have any meaning for life,...must pass through an equally complete transformation ... To do this means to make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with types...

...the school to which, finally, we turn. This page intentionally left blank. 5 Reimagining School . . . our social life has undergone a thorough and radical...must pass through an equally complete transformation. The Purposes of Schooling —John Dewey 1 The eminent philosopher of education John Dewey wrote these...

...163). This central theme was expressed early by Dewey (1899) in a lecture at the University of Chicago: The obvious fact is that our social life has undergone...must pass through an equally complete transformation. . . . The introduction of active occupations, of nature study, of elementary science, of art, of history;...