Dewey, John, 1859-1952

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imperial University in Tokyo, National University in Peking, and the University of Mexico. He retired from active service, and was appointed as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Residence at Columbia University in 1930. He also worked for the Turkish government and as an educational ad visor for the Barnes Foundation, served as chairman of the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky and was elected president of the League for Industrial Democracy. In 1886 he married Alice Chipman with whom he would have four children. She died in 1927 and he remarried in 1946 to Roberta Lowitz Grant His books include, Psychology, Ethics (co-authored by James H. Tufts), Human Nature and Conduct, Experience and Nature, The Quest for Certainty, A Common Faith, and Logic: Theory of Inquiry. In 1935 the John Dewey Society was formed by a group of professional educators in New York City. Their mission was to promote the study of education and culture. John Dewey died in New York City on June 1st, 1952.

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imperial University in Tokyo, National University in Peking, and the University of Mexico. He retired from active service, and was appointed as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Residence at Columbia University in 1930. He also worked for the Turkish government and as an educational advisor for the Barnes Foundation, served as chairman of the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky and was elected president of the League for Industrial Democracy. In 1886 he married Alice Chipman with whom he would have four children. She died in 1927 and he remarried in 1946 to Roberta Lowitz Grant His books include, Psychology, Ethics (co-authored by James H. Tufts), Human Nature and Conduct, Experience and Nature, The Quest for Certainty, A Common Faith, and Logic: Theory of Inquiry. In 1935 the John Dewey Society was formed by a group of professional educators in New York City. Their mission was to promote the study of education and culture. John Dewey died in New York City on June 1st, 1952.

American philosopher and educator.

Philosopher and educator.

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imperial University in Tokyo, National University in Peking, and the University of Mexico. He retired from active service, and was appointed as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Residence at Columbia University in 1930. He also worked for the Turkish government and as an educational ad visor for the Barnes Foundation, served as chairman of the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky and was elected president of the League for Industrial Democracy. In 1935 the John Dewey Society was formed by a group of professional educators in New York City. Their mission was to promote the study of education and culture. John Dewey died in New York City on June 1st, 1952.

American philosopher of pragmatism, psychologist, educator, and a founder of the New School for Social Research.

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imperial University in Tokyo, National University in Peking, and the University of Mexico. He retired from active service, and was appointed as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Residence at Columbia University in 1930. He also worked for the Turkish government and as an educational advisor for the Barnes Foundation, served as chairman of the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky and was elected president of the League for Industrial Democracy. In 1886 he married Alice Chipman with whom he would have four children. She died in 1927 and he remarried in 1946 to Roberta Lowitz Grant His books include, Psychology, Ethics (co-authored by James H. Tufts), Human Nature and Conduct, Experience and Nature, The Quest for Certainty, A Common Faith, and Logic: Theory of Inquiry. In 1935 the John Dewey Society was formed by a group of professional educators in New York City. Their mission was to promote the study of education and culture. John Dewey died in New York City on June 1st, 1952.

John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator.

John Dewey was born in Vermont and educated at the University of Vermont, later obtaining a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins in 1884. He taught at the University of Michigan, 1884-1894, University of Chicago, 1894-1904, and Columbia University, 1905-1939. He authored works on philosophy, psychology, and education.

Philosopher and educator; professor at the universities of Michigan, Minnesota, and Chicago, and at Columbia.

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey (1859-1952) wrote such works as: The School and Society (1900) and The Child and the Curriculum (1902). His Art as Experience (1934) emphasized the individual art object as part of the community and culture in which it was created.

Mehdi Khan Nakosteen (1904-1982), born in Iran, received his doctorate from Cornell University and was a Professor of History and Philosophy of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Nakosteen was a scholar of medieval Persian poetry and author of such works as Dust and Destiny and Selected Persian Poems (1967) and Sufism and Human Destiny and Sufi Thought in Persian Poetry (1977). His works also includes a number of translations such as The Ghazaliyyat of Haafez of Shiraz (1977) and The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam (1973).