John Dewey officially retired in 1930 ... By this time, he was the pre-eminent figure in American philosophy. Even after he finished teaching, this was not the end of his philosophical and ...

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 ...

If philosophy—at least in one of its important ... and Herbert Spencer. Nevertheless, John Dewey’s influence upon primary and secondary education in America is not easily over-estimated.

Educationally, we live in a world created in large part by policymakers and educators inspired by the “progressive education” notions of philosopher John Dewey. The extent to which the ...

who is retired and first wrote about John Dewey 55 years ago when he was a doctoral candidate in NYU’s Philosophy Department. His first career was scholar and teacher of philosophy, followed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an article on John Dewey published in the September ... Education was a primary concern for Dewey because for him philosophy was not just something for the books. Its primary purpose was ...