Dewey on Education

I am reading John Dewey and American Democracy

And have arrived at the time when he joined the University of Chicago, and started his own school.

This, for me is the most interesting part of the book - as it was for him, personally. The city of Chicago was where

Every conceivable thing solicits you, the town seems filled with problems holding out their hands, and asking somebody to please solve them - or else dump them in the lake.

I hardly need say, one hundred years later - these problems have not been solved. Although enormous efforts have been made to do so. Including efforts by Barack Obama himself.