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Dewey, John

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  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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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dewey, John, 36, 37, 38, 149, 164, 182-85, 200, 225, 424, 426, 430, 509, 964, 975-77, 1004, 1010.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

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

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

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