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For the last month I’ve lived across the street from the University of Chicago Laboratory School, a K-12 institute founded in 1896 by John Dewey. If one’s theories are educational, I suppose it’s fitting that one’s laboratory is a school. According to Dewey, its founding “was animated by a desire to discover…how a school could become a cooperative community while developing in individuals their own capacities and satisfying their own needs.” The attempted development of such

When I was sixteen I decided I was going to be a philosopher. This isn’t exactly what I had in mind. To be a philosopher, I thought, was...