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The school and society

by John Dewey (1859–1952)

15 chapters, about 33,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 200 words
2. AUTHOR’S NOTE 300 words
3. THE SCHOOL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 5,900 words
4. THE SCHOOL AND THE LIFE OF THE CHILD 6,100 words
5. WASTE IN EDUCATION 6,000 words
6. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 5,000 words
7. FROEBEL’S EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES 500 words
8. AS REGARDS PLAY AND GAMES 700 words
9. SYMBOLISM 300 words
10. IMAGINATION AND PLAY 400 words
11. SUBJECT-MATTER 600 words
12. METHOD 1,000 words
13. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONS 1,600 words
14. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTENTION 2,500 words
15. THE AIM OF HISTORY IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 2,200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Attention
• Biography
• Child
• Correlation
• Grammar
• History
• Learning
• Play (activity)
• School
• University

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