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  2. John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont. His father, Archibald Sprague Dewey, left his grocery business during the Civil War to become a quartermaster in the Vermont Regiment. Afterwards, he opened a tobacco shop, running it successfully to provide his family with financial security and comfort.

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    Inquiry into Moscow show trials about Trotsky. Educational progressivism. Occupational psychosis. John Dewey ( / ˈduːi /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

  4. Among John Dewey's close associates, besides his brother Davis, were Yager of Connecticut, later governor of Porto Rico, Arthur Kimball, a roommate for a time, and later professor of physics at Amherst, Harry Osborn, who taught biology at Hamlin College near St. Paul and whom Dewey saw frequently during the year he taught at the University of ...

  5. Nov 1, 2018 · John Dewey. John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of American pragmatism’s early founders, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, and arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century. Dewey’s educational theories and experiments had global reach, his psychological theories influenced ...

  6. John Dewey Biography. Born: October 20, 1859. Burlington, Vermont. Died: June 1, 1952. New York, New York. American philosopher, educator, and writer. During the first half of the twentieth century, John Dewey was one of America's most famous teachers of philosophy (the study of the universe and man's place in it).

  7. Aug 9, 2023 · John Dewey taught at universities from 1884 to 1930. An academic philosopher and proponent of educational reform, in 1894 Dewey started an experimental elementary school. In 1919 he co-founded The ...

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  9. Smith, Warren Allen. “Dewey, John (1854-1952)‚” in Who’s Who in Hell. New York: Barricade Books, 2000. John Dewey was not a member but was a close friend of the Unitarian movement. The memorial service celebrating his life was held at a church with a long-distinguished Unitarian heritage, the Community Church of New York.