

Dewey's own experience with faculty and students at that school is the life of education for which Democracy and Education gives testimony. It was made possible in large part by Dewey's participation in the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago from 1896 to 1904. Democracy and Education differs from many texts in the philosophy of education in that it was not written merely as a philosophy to be "applied" to education. It is still the best-known work in philosophy of education by an American author, and has remained in print down to the present time.

John Dewey's Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, was published in 1916.
