# John Dewey

> He turned American schools into laboratories and democracy into a philosophy you could teach. Dewey believed thinking was something you did with your hands, that citizens were made not born, and that a classroom ought to feel like the world it was training children to repair.

*American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859-1952)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1859-10-20
- **Died:** 1952-06-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1859, Dewey came up through Michigan academia convinced that democracy and ethics were the same problem. In 1896 his paper on the reflex arc helped launch functionalist psychology - the idea that mind was action, not static structure. By the time he reached the University of Chicago he'd founded the Laboratory Schools, a live experiment in progressive pedagogy where children learned by doing and every lesson doubled as a test of his theories. From 1904 to 1930 he taught philosophy at Columbia's Teachers College, writing across epistemology, aesthetics, logic, and social theory, always circling back to the same obsession: democracy required more than voting rights, it required a public capable of thinking together. He spent half a century arguing that schools and civil society were the engines of that capability, and that without them the ethical ideal collapsed.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Literature, #Psychology, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

## Timeline
- **1952** - Died
- **1951** - Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- **1930** - Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris
- **1925** - Carus Lectures
- **1859** - Born

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