Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School ...

RALEIGH — Just about everyone has an opinion about how to improve education, and it’s usually an opinion passionately held and forcefully argued. It’s not hard to see why. After all, schools are the ...

Thirty years of “life adjustment” by the followers of Progressive Educator John Dewey have left U.S. education over adjusted, ill-equipped to quicken intellectual life. This week, in “The Deeper ...

John Dewey, a philosopher and proponent of progressive education throughout the first half of the 20th century, believed that an educational “community” should be made up of individuals who are ...

The name of the thriller was Too Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published ...

Based on original sources, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters, John Dewey. During his lifetime ...

@$ID/[No paragraph style]:How does a great mind become great? Part of the answer is of course nature — one’s DNA. But what about nurture? Take John Dewey. What ...