John Dewey

20th Century
1859-1952Burlington, Vermont / New York

As Your Guide

Dewey will shape your identity through action, not contemplation. He believes you learn who you are by engaging with real problems and testing your ideas against their results. Choose him if you want a guide who insists that thinking is doing.

Who They Were

American pragmatist who applied philosophy to education and democracy.

What They Left Behind

Words that outlived their authors.

Democracy and Education, Experience and Nature, Art as Experience

What Haunts Them

These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.

Learning by doinginquirydemocracy as way of lifeinstrumentalism