The School and Society / Being three lectures

Chapter 3: PUBLISHER’S NOTE

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The book presents three lectures and a supplemental account describing how schooling must align with social change and children's lives. It argues that education should transmit collective achievements to all citizens, reshape curricula around activity, manual training, and inquiry, and integrate subjects through projects rooted in pupils' experiences. It critiques fragmented, rote instruction as wasteful and calls for reorganization of school structures, schedules, and aims to promote economy, efficiency, and fuller growth. The supplemental statement recounts the formation and practices of an experimental elementary school that models these principles through organized activities, teacher collaboration, and curricular innovations.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The three lectures presented in the following pages were delivered 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.