Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School ...

The name of the thriller was Too Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published ...

This article is adapted from Paul Kengor’s book Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Google the phrase “founding father of public education,” and you’ll likely ...

One Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise “America’s greatest philosopher.” It was John Dewey’s 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women—among them ...