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...road out of our present educational confusion lies through the use of projects which cut across the fenced-in-fields of isolated "subjects" and make numerous fields of study contribute to the finished thesis or program, said Dr. John Dewey in delivering the Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education before a capacity audience in the New Lecture Hall last night...
Educators, faced with this situation, have turned, said Professor Dewey, to organizing the field, subdividing the "studies" and reducing their subject matter to a rigid body of material, to be lifted to the back of the student and carried until examination. Such a solution of the difficulty is not, however, the one furnished by everyday life...
...trades within the orbit of his particular calling, able to judge, if he cannot actually execute, work of an electrical, mechanical or artistic nature, and of very varied content, ranging from the most technical to the most theoretical. Only in projects, patterned after this approach to reality, could Dr. Dewey see relief from latter-day conflicts...
Professor Dewey felt that the question of legitimacy might be dismissed by recalling that the now traditional subjects had themselves to fight for recognition. It was the question of method or approach to the expounding of these subjects which seemed to him of importance. The project was the method which out of several alternatives, seemed to have most to recommend...
Those receiving will be Dean and Mrs. Walter E. Dearborn, Dean Edmund F. Wright, Professor John Dewey, Dean and Mrs. H. B. Washburn, Dean and Mrs. W. H. Sperry, Professor and Mrs. J. H. Woods, and Professor and Mrs. Ernest Hocking...