External to Hirsch’s corpus. This work was selected by an editorial review for D4; Hirsch did not cite it in the ten books indexed here. Its zero occurrence, book, and load counts are intentional. No corpus occurrence has been inferred or created.
Identity review: Codex multi-agent D4 rival-framework audit; not human-signed · 2026-08-24
The complete Project Gutenberg transcription was read for Dewey's account of education as communication, democratic association, growth and the relation between formal study and lived experience.
Access checked: full text read · 2026-08-24 · open checked access point
Complete Project Gutenberg HTML transcription read; this is not a page-image edition and may contain transcription errors.
Independence category: independent A primary philosophical work independent of Hirsch and CKF. It supplies a rival democratic account of educational purpose and authority, not empirical evidence for programme effects.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education · single work
Review authority: Codex multi-agent D4 rival-framework audit; not human-signed
Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education: An introduction to the philosophy of education. New York: The Macmillan Company.
Complete Project Gutenberg transcription of the 1916 book selected for D4's democratic-inquiry and common-life comparison.
Review state: full text read
Dewey 1916, Democracy and Education · qualifies A4, supports A5, qualifies A8, qualifies I4, challenges I5
knowledge affirming democratic inquiry primary text
full public domain transcription available key chapters read; primary read key chapters — Complete Project Gutenberg transcription available; chapters 7 and 14 and the organized-subject-matter argument inspected.
primary independent
Historical primary philosophical text, not a modern empirical comparison. Used to correct the content-free progressive caricature and reconstruct democratic inquiry positively.
Dewey treats organized adult knowledge as indispensable working capital and gives teachers a duty to direct experience toward deeper understanding.
Contemporary implementation effects, one national selector or that every project/inquiry design preserves cumulative knowledge.
Open limitation: The accessible source is a transcription rather than a facsimile edition.
No occurrence is shown because Hirsch did not cite this work in the ten-book corpus. The dossier appraisal above records why the editorial layer selected it.