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 ...

One Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise “America’s greatest philosopher.” It was John Dewey’s 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women—among them ...

[Editor’s note: John Dewey was one of the most important educational philosophers of the 20th century. In the following Q&A from news outlet The Conversation, political science professor Nicholas ...

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 ...

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 ...

JOHN DEWEY has just had his eightysecond birthday, but there is not a quaver in his voice or a quiver in his handwriting. He is five feet, eight and a half inches tall, and weighs just what the height ...

This article is adapted from Paul Kengor’s book Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Google the phrase “founding father of public education,” and you’ll likely ...

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When Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government had been produced at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, his response was, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin’s hopes have been ...

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 ...