I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and children playing together on playgrounds. This is especially true ...

John Dewey (1859-1952) grew up in Burlington, attended public schools there, studied philosophy at the University ... “Where We Go From Here,” he quotes Lincoln at Gettysburg to describe ...

I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and children playing together on playgrounds. This is especially true ...

As well as a psychologist and progressive educational reformer, John Dewey (1859–1952 ... he is associated with the pragmatic school of philosophy. Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont ...

John Dewey was a philosopher, but he was also a man on the street, and that accounts for what is most characteristic in his philosophy. It is a practical philosophy, a philosophy of action.

Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School and Society in 1899. For most of the last half-century the “philosopher of science ...