“These are the essays that Dewey iden­tified years later as the first published writing to present the essentials of the philosophical view that he developed during the succeeding thirty-five years.”—Monist

• CONTENTS 
• Introduction
• Sidney, Hook
• 1. 
• ESSAYS:
• The Evolutionary Method as Applied to Morality. I. Its Scientific Necessity
• The Evolutionary Method as Applied to Morality. II. Its Significance for Conduct
• Interpretation of Savage Mind
• Academic Freedom
• The University of Chicago School of Education
• Bulletin of Information: The University of Chicago School of Education
• The School as Social Centre
• 2. 
• MISCELLANY:
• In Remembrance, Francis W. Parker
• In Memoriam: Colonel Francis Wayland Parker
• Discussion of “What Our Schools Owe to Child Study” by Theodore B. Noss
• Memorandum to President Harper on Coeducation
• Letter to A. K. Parker on Coeducation
• 3. 
• REVIEWS:
• Analytical Psychology. A Practical Manual by Lightner Witmer
• The World and the Individual, Second Series: Nature, Man, and the Moral Order by Josiah Royce
• 4. 
• Contributions to Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology
• 5. 
• The Child and the Curriculum
• 6. 
• Studies in Logical Theory
• 7. 
• APPENDIX: “What Our Schools Owe to Child Study”
• Theodore, B. Noss
• Textual Apparatus
• Index