SOURCE: "John Dewey and the Laboratory School," in Dewey, Russell, Whitehead: Philosophers as Educators, Southern Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 14-42.

In the following essay, Hendley presents a history of Dewey's Laboratory School, and focuses on Dewey's philosophical and educational goals for the school.

I went to the Dewey School one day,
 And saw the children all at play.
 But when the tardy bell had rung,
 All the classes had begun.
 Some to Science, some to French,
 Some to shop to work at the bench.

L.o.t.D.o.E., Dewey, Dewey, Dew-ee-ee.

When Thursday afternoon is here
 There are excursions if it's clear
 To Stony Island in Highland Park,
 And they often stay till nearly dark.
 Mister Gillett points here and there,
 Showing things both strange and fair.

L.o.t.D.o.E., Dewey, Dewey, Dew-ee-ee.¹

Thus the students immortalized in song the experimental school run...