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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.


John Dewey


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See also
List of American philosophers
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Democratic education
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Laboratory school
Learning by teaching
League for Independent Political Action. He has been called an instrumentalist an experimentalist an empiricist a functionalist and a naturalist. In 1899 Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20 1859 – June 1 1952) was an American philosopher psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education he also wrote about many other topics including experience nature art logic inquiry democracy and ethics.

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