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Born on October 20, 1859
John Dewey was born Verlington, Vermont on this date. -
University of Michigan
John Dewey accepted a faculty position at The University of Michigan from 1884-1888, and 1889-1894, with a small break in the middle. -
University Of Chicago
From 1894 to 1904 John Dewey was at the newly founded University of Chicago, until a dispute with the administration required him to leave. -
The School and the Society: Being Three Lectures
John Dewey published this in 1899, and was majorly influential in schooling ideals. He proposed a solid framework for education in this book, including experimentation as a core part of an education system. This book was a major factor in John Dewey's ideas spreading around America, and is a largely influential book to this day. -
American Psychological Association
In 1899 John Dewey was elected president of the A.P.A. Finland's education system is modeled around John Dewey's ideals, and was ranked second worldwide in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index#2007 https://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/to-what-degree-did-john-dewey-influence-education-in-finland/ -
Columbia University
From 1904 until his retirement in 1930, John Dewey was professor of philosophy at Columbia University. -
Democracy and Education
Challenging conventional psychological beliefs, this was a major book in John Dewey's life, and he based much of his future works off this. -
Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey's celebrated work on progressive education, where he describes human function of habits. From this point on, John Dewey goes into many different fields of study with his books. To list them all would be excessive, but in his life published over 40 books,and 700 articles in journals. From politics, to religion, and back to science again, he managed to touch base in a good many areas indeed. -
Died on June 1, 1952
John Dewey died in New York, New York on this date. His main contributions to the world were his ideas of human learning, and how better systems could be implemented in schools. He studied and was well-versed in many fields, but is most remembered and was influential by his schooling ideals. As stated before, his systems have been used by Finland, with success, and a core concept of that is the experiments that are tied into learning, as well as making learning fun for small kids, through games.
