John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and died on June 1, 1952. He received his PhD from the Krieger School of Arts and Science at John Hopkins University in 1884. He was professor of philosophy at Columbia University on 1904. He developed his practical learning to be implemented during the time that he ran this project of - learning by doing - with his wife at University of Chicago. He was an educator, psychologist and philosopher. His learning methods are described as conceptual philosophy of education and were influential in the United States and worldwide.
John Dewey provided in theory and practises a project on progressive education. He was regarded as one of the founders of the American pragmatism school through which he developed ways for informal educators to follow. He contributed in editing the Encyclopaedia for Unified Science. He has some centres for his own studies in several universities through which his philosophy of education spreads. So his theories are followed by some schools and universities worldwide. He wrote Democracy and Education, based upon the democratic or proto democratic educational philosophies of Plato and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.John Dewey also wrote: How We Think, Human Nature and Conduct, Reconstruction in Philosophy, Liberalism and Social Action, Experience and Education, Freedom and Culture, Knowing and the Known and some other books. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com
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