The years 1895 to 1898 were for John Dewey a season of increasing achievement and recognition. While still considerably less than forty years of age,he was chairman of a philosophy department which included not only philosophy and psychology but also, at his insistence, pedagogy as well. He held a professorship in all three fields and was acknowledge for his contributions to each of them. It would be difficult to say which of these roles he preferred: the systematic philosopher, the scientific psychologist, or the experimental educator. Actually, he saw them as intimately related, and they culminated in what he may well have considered his major achievement of the period, the establishment of a laboratory primary school under his own direction. This volume contains the complete published production of John Dewey for that four-year period, throughout which he remained at the University of Chicago. There he pursued a great variety of scholarly interests, as the scope of his writings reveals. The works of this period may, for the purpose of analysis, be put into the following categories: philosophy, philosophy of education, psychology, psychology of education, psychology of selected educational subjects, child-study, elementary education, secondary education, laboratory schools, pedagogy as a university discipline and other miscellaneous matters.