Dewey, John

1. A philosopher and educational reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a philosopher, Dewey followed pragmatism, and its practical orientation carried over into his educational ideas, which became the basis of progressive education.

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Dewey, John, Beliefs and Realities, 2, 245, 246; mentioned, 202, 257.

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Dewey, John, referred to, 12.Drummond,

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Dewey, John, American philosopher and psychologist, born at Burlington, Vermont, 20th Oct.,

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When the Boy Scouts of America was finally launched, its first national council boasted such names as Admiral Dewey, John Wanamaker, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.

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On June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."

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