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John Dewey

출생: October 20, 1859 – Burlington, Vermont, United States

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and education reformer whose work centered on pragmatism, democracy, and experiential learning. Best known for Democracy and Education and Experience and Nature, he became a leading voice in progressive education, shaping 20th-century philosophy and classroom practice in the United States and beyond.

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John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, on October 20, 1859, and came of age in a period when American intellectual life was widening beyond inherited religious and philosophical certainties. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in 1879 and his doctorate in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1884, where exposure to both idealism and experimental psychology helped shape the direction of his thought. After teaching at Michigan and then Chicago, he became one of the leading figures in American pragmatism, arguing that ideas should be judged by how they work in lived experience rather than by abstract perfection alone. His years at the University of Chicago, including work connected to the Laboratory School, marked a decisive turning point: education became for him not a narrow specialty but the testing ground for democracy itself. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dewey))

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Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication
-Democracy and Education
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We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment
-Democracy and Education
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No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another
-Democracy and Education
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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness
-Democracy and Education
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And education is not a mere means to such a life. Education is such a life
-Democracy and Education
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Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it, and the further conclusions to which it tends, constitutes reflective thought
-How We Think
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We think in order to grasp meaning, but none the less every extension of knowledge makes us aware of blind and opaque spots, where with less knowledge all had seemed obvious and natural
-How We Think
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The native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind
-How We Think
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There is no one ready-made self behind activities
-Human Nature and Conduct

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"John Dewey was the most significant educational thinker of his era and, many would argue, of the 20th century"

PBS

"John Dewey, more than anyone else, may be justly called the Philosopher of the American continent"

TIME

"The Man Who Changed Education: John Dewey's universal influence survives him"

New York Herald Tribune

"John Dewey was one of American pragmatism’s early founders and arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century"

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"In the profoundest sense John Dewey is the philosopher of America"

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"John Dewey is recognized in an increasing degree as one of the deepest influences in American life"

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"John Dewey was a leading proponent of the American school of thought known as pragmatism"

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"John Dewey is the American philosopher of democracy"

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