...welcome, would be greeted with the utmost hospitality. But why should I make this labored presentation ? The obvious fact is that our social life has undergone...equally complete transformation. This transformation is not something to appear suddenly, to be executed in a day by conscious purpose. It is already in progress....

...COMMUNITY" (1900) (From The School and Society, pp. 26-28. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 111.) The obvious fact is that our social life has undergone...equally complete transformation. This transformation is not something to appear suddenly, to be executed in a day by conscious purpose. It is already in progress....

..."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;...