Democracy and Education

A stone takes a blow—or breaks. A living thing turns the forces around it into means to go on, and John Dewey begins his philosophy of education with that difference.

Writing in 1916, Dewey looks beyond the classroom to the daily work by which a society passes on its ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. Each generation arrives without the knowledge or customs its elders have gathered; unless the young become part of the shared life around them, that life cannot continue. Schools matter, Dewey argues, but they are only one channel of a deeper, constant exchange. What makes a collection of people a community—and how does it keep becoming one?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.