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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes a southern community in the south during the 1930s. The great detail that is given the characters is rendered through the reflective eyes of a child named Scout. She describes the people and their place in t ....

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.... still today, each book has its place making it “easy for the librarian and the user to understand” (Gale Research, 1). Like the Dewey Decimal System Maycomb also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educational philosophy was the new way students were to be taught in the Maycomb schools. It stressed the hands on experi ....