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THE CHILD
AND
THE CURRICULUM
by
John Dewey
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO & LONDON
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London
The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada
Copyright 1902 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.Published 1902. Twenty-eighth Impression 1966
Printed in the United States of America
The Child and the Curriculum
Profound differences in theory are never gratuitous orinvented. They grow out of conflicting elements in a genuineproblem—a problem which is genuine just because the elements,taken as they stand, are conflicting. Any significant problem involvesconditions that for the moment contradict each other. Solution comesonly by getting away from the meaning of terms that is already fixedupon and coming to see the conditions from another4point of view, and hence in a fresh light. But this reconstructionmeans travail of thought. Easier than thinking with surrender ofalready formed ideas and detachment from facts already learned is justto stick by what is already said, lo