“John Dewey wrote the Spanish sentence "La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria, un tipo de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la vida de la sociedad de una manera más amplia" in a work cited as (Dewey, 1899/1986, p. 27).”

To do this means to make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with types of occupations that reflect the life of the larger society [...] It gets a chance to be a miniature community, an embryonic society.

In the English text of Dewey's 1899 work, Lecture I includes: "The school, as an embryonic community life, is the simplification of the existing social life." Another sentence reads: "The school is primarily a social institution." The wording closest to the claim is: "The school, as an embryonic community, is only a form of community life." However, the specific phrase "a type of social life on a small scale which reflects the life of society in a broader way" does not occur as a single sentence; rather, Dewey describes school as "a miniature community" and "an embryonic form of community life" in various places.

In this Spanish translation of Dewey’s 1899 lecture "The School and Society" ("La escuela y la sociedad"), the text reads: "Tiene, así, la escuela una probabilidad de ser una Comunidad en miniatura, una Sociedad embrionaria. Este es el hecho fundamental, y de éste mana una fuente de enseñanza continua y ordenada." Earlier, Dewey describes the school as "una comunidad de vida embrionaria, llenas de actividad de diversos tipos". The passage does not contain the exact wording "un tipo de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la vida de la sociedad de una manera más amplia", but it does present the ideas of the school as an embryonic community and miniature society.

In an English edition that includes Dewey's text with editorial introduction, the primary text around p. 27 (pagination may vary by edition) contains Dewey’s discussion of the school as a social institution: "The school is a form of community life." It elaborates that the school "simplifies existing social life" so that the child may have "a sort of embryonic community life." There is no Spanish sentence, and there is no bilingual presentation; the words given in Spanish in the claim would necessarily be the work of a translator or secondary author.

The document reproduces a translated passage from John Dewey’s 1899 work *The School and Society* in English: “to make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with types of occupations that reflect the life of the larger society and permeated throughout with the spirit of art, history, and science. When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious (John Dewey 1899, *The School and Society*, excerpt reprinted in McDermott…).” The passage is clearly in English and contains the phrase “an embryonic community life…”. No Spanish sentence is shown or attributed to Dewey here.

The school history page explains John Dewey’s conception of the Laboratory School: “Dewey wrote that students learn and grow best in an environment of ‘embryonic community life, active with types of occupations which reflect the life of the larger society.’ … Dewey’s intention was to challenge conventional attitudes about childhood education and to discover ‘how a school could become a cooperative community.’” The site presents Dewey’s description in English, not Spanish, and does not attribute any Spanish-language sentence to him.

Discussing Dewey’s view of schooling, the thesis states: “Dewey stated that schools must become ‘an embryonic community life, active with the types of occupations that reflect the life of the larger society and permeated throughout with the spirit of art, history, and science.’” This English quotation is presented as Dewey’s own words (with a citation to his work). The document does not present a Spanish version or suggest that Dewey originally wrote this sentence in Spanish.

This academic article in Spanish explains Dewey's conception of democracy and education: "Para Dewey la noción de vitalidad está siempre, pues considera que '… la unidad de la nueva pedagogía se encuentra en la idea de que existe una íntima y necesaria relación entre los procesos de la vida en comunidad y los procesos de la escuela'." It continues: "Una sociedad es democrática en la medida en que facilita la participación en sus bienes de todos sus miembros en condiciones iguales y que asegura el reajuste flexible de sus instituciones mediante la interacción de las diferentes formas de vida asociada." The article cites Dewey in Spanish but does not give the exact sentence "La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria, un tipo de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la vida de la sociedad de una manera más amplia" nor attributes such a wording to Dewey (1899/1986, p. 27).

The study notes: “Dewey sometimes referred to the Laboratory School as an ‘embryonic community’ but it was far from an embryo of the society outside its walls.” It then explains that Dewey’s pedagogy “was designed to recreate a miniature democratic community within the school, modelled on pre-industrial society.” The discussion is based on Dewey’s English writings and uses the English phrase “embryonic community”; there is no indication that Dewey wrote a Spanish sentence such as “La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria…”.

Describing Dewey’s concept of schooling, the article refers to “an embryonic community within the school in which the child could actively participate.” It links this idea to Dewey’s early twentieth-century writings on education. The language used and quoted is English, and the article does not imply that Dewey authored a Spanish sentence such as “La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria…”.

progressive school would become “an embryonic community life,” active with types of occupations that reflect the life of the larger society.

According to the abstract of this Spanish-language article: "El pensamiento pedagógico de John Dewey concibe la escuela como una comunidad democrática, una forma de vida social en miniatura que debe preparar para la vida en sociedad." The article uses its own Spanish phrasing "una forma de vida social en miniatura" to describe Dewey's idea, demonstrating that Spanish-speaking authors often paraphrase Dewey’s notion of school as an "embryonic" or miniature community. However, there is no indication that Dewey himself wrote in Spanish the exact words "La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria, un tipo de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la vida de la sociedad de una manera más amplia", nor is a Dewey (1899/1986, p. 27) Spanish quotation given.

This reference article summarizes Dewey’s view: "Dewey thought of education as a process of living and not a preparation for future living, and school as a form of community life in which children learn to live cooperatively." It notes that Dewey "viewed the school as an embryonic community, a microcosm of society." The article paraphrases Dewey; it does not provide the Spanish sentence nor a citation of Dewey (1899/1986, p. 27), but it shows that the ideas in the Spanish wording derive from English concepts like "embryonic community" and "microcosm of society."

Discussing Dewey’s view of education and democracy, the author writes: "El eje de esta nueva cultura científica de la ciudadanía radica, según Dewey, en la educación, a la que considera la principal posibilitadora de la extensión de los nuevos hábitos, de las nuevas actitudes acordes con la democracia." Although the work analyses Dewey’s ideas about the school and community, it does not reproduce the specific Spanish sentence "La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria, un tipo de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la vida de la sociedad de una manera más amplia" nor does it give a citation of the form "(Dewey, 1899/1986, p. 27)".

This Spanish article examining interpretations of Dewey summarizes: "Siguiendo a Dewey, numerosos autores han descrito la escuela como una ‘comunidad en miniatura’ o ‘sociedad embrionaria’, una forma de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la organización social más amplia." The description is explicitly presented as how "numerous authors" have described the school, based on Dewey, rather than as a single exact Spanish sentence authored by Dewey. No primary Spanish edition is quoted with a page number such as "(Dewey, 1899/1986, p. 27)" in connection with this exact wording.

To do this means to make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with the types of occupation that reflect the life of larger society. [...] It gets a chance to be a miniature community, and embryonic society.

What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge -- a common understanding -- like-mindedness as sociologists say.

In this Spanish edition collecting Dewey’s educational essays, including translations of his early works, the translator renders Dewey’s concept of the school as a community with phrases such as "la escuela como comunidad de vida embrionaria" and "una comunidad en miniatura". However, searches within the volume do not reveal the complete sentence "La escuela debe convertirse en una comunidad embrionaria, un tipo de vida social en pequeña escala que refleja la vida de la sociedad de una manera más amplia" as a single verbatim line. Nor is there a pagination that corresponds to a dual reference like "(Dewey, 1899/1986, p. 27)" for that precise Spanish wording.

A Spanish-language article on Dewey’s pedagogy describes his ideas in Spanish and explains that for him “la escuela es una comunidad embrionaria de vida social que refleja la vida de la sociedad en una escala pequeña” (the school is an embryonic community of social life that reflects the life of society on a small scale). The author presents this as a Spanish rendering of Dewey’s concept, not as an original Spanish sentence written by Dewey himself; the article notes that Dewey wrote in English and is being interpreted for a Spanish-speaking readership.

John Dewey (1859 – 1952) has made, arguably, the most significant contribution to the development of educational thinking in the twentieth century. His attention to experience and reflection, democracy and community, and to environments for learning have been seminal.

John Dewey's 'The School and Society' (1899) was originally published in English. There is no record of Dewey writing works in Spanish or including Spanish sentences in his English-language publications. The quoted Spanish sentence appears to be a translation of Dewey's English text: 'To do this means to make each one of our schools an embryonic community life, active with types of occupations that reflect the life of the larger society, and the home a laboratory in which they work out their common problems.' Page numbers vary by edition; no standard 1899/1986 edition with p. 27 matching this quote is known.