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pragmatist & educator
John Dewey
[1859-1952]
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"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
"Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."
"As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."
"The media's job is to interest the public in the public interest."
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination."
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
— John Dewey [1859-1952]
B I O
t e x t
h e r e
John Dewey Society [est. 1935]
John Dewey entry Wikipedia
list of publications by John Dewey at Wikipedia
listed #40 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
listed among The Nation Magazine's 50 Most Influential Progressives, Sept 2010
included in Peter Dreier's 2013 book about "The 100 Greatest Americans of The Twentieth Century"
Major Works
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"Leibniz’s New Essays Concerning The Human Understanding" [1888]
"Psychology and Social Practice" [1901]
"The Child and The Curriculum" [1902]
"Studies In Logical Theory" [1903]
"Ethics" [1909] by John Dewey & James A. Tufts
"Moral Principles In Education" [1909]
 | "How We Think: A Restatement of The Relation of Reflective Thinking To The Educative Process" [1910 classic]
Kindle Edition from Digireads.com [12/2009] for $3.82 Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [11/2012] for $7.59 Digireads.com 9x6 pb [2007] for $7.99 Dover Publns 8½x5½ pb [10/97] for $9.95 B.N. Publishing, Chile 9x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $17.93 Wadsworth Publng 7½x5 hardcover [rev 8/97] out of print/used |
 | "Democracy and Education: An Introduction To The Philosophy of Education" [1916 classic]
For Dewey, democracy and education were both the means and end for the building of a good and just progressive society • book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2012] for FREE {sic} Kindle Edition from Dover Publng [11/2012] for $5.46 Digireads 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $9.49 Dover Publng 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $11.66 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/97] for $17.95 NuVision Publns 9x6 hardcover [2/2009] for $24.41 |
"Creative Intelligence" [1917] by John Dewey & others
"Essays In Experimental Logic" [1918]
"Reconstruction In Philosophy" [1919]
"Letters From China and Japan" [1920]
"Human Nature and Conduct" [1921]
"China, Japan and The U.S.A." [1921]
 | "Experience and Education" [1938 classic] Late in his career, Dewey wrote this summary of his ideas, that the best, progressive education provides balanced and informed experience for the students. Free Press mass market pb [7/97] for $8.95 Kappa Delta Pi 7½x6 pb [11/98] for $19.99 Peter Smith Publr 7x4¾ hardcover [9/83] for $26.75 |
 | "The Philosophy of John Dewey (2 Volumes in 1)" [Henry Holt & Co. 1928, rev 1973] Edited & with Introduction by John J. McDermott Univ Chicago Press pb [4/81] for $27.56 |
 | "John Dewey: The Essential Writings" [Harper & Row 1977] Edited & with Introduction by David Sidorsky HarperCollins College 8x5¼ pb [6/77] out of print/used |
 | "The Essential Dewey" in two volumes [1998] Edited by Larry A. Hickman & Thomas M. Alexander Volume 1: Pragmatism, Education, Democracy there is not yet a Kindle version of Volume 1 (2013) Indiana Univ Press 9¾x7 pb [8/98] for $30.95 Indiana Univ Press 10½x7½ hardcover [8/98] out of print/used Volume 2: Ethics, Logic, Psychology Kindle Edition from Indiana Univ Press [11/2009] for $20.99 Indiana Univ Press 10x7 pb [8/98] for $36.00 Indiana Univ Press 10½x7½ hardcover [8/98] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Darwin-Philosophy-Other-Essays/dp/1573921378/
http://www.amazon.com/John-Dewey-Education-Selected-Writings/dp/0226143902/
http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Ethics-1900-1901-Dewey/dp/0809316633/
http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-China-1919-1920-John-Dewey/dp/0824802128/
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Dewey-Library-Living-Philosophers/dp/0875481329/
http://www.amazon.com/Political-Writings-John-Dewey/dp/0872201902/
http://www.amazon.com/Unmodern-Philosophy-Modern-John-Dewey/dp/0809330792/
 | "The Essential John Dewey Collection" for Kindle [2012]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [12/2012] for $1.99 {sic} includes 14 books (all public domain): "Leibniz’s New Essays Concerning The Human Under-tanding" [1888]; "Psychology and Social Practice" [1901]; "The Child and The Curriculum" [1902]; "Studies In Logical Theory" [1903]; "Ethics" [1909] by John Dewey & James A. Tufts; "Moral Principles In Education" [1909]; "How We Think" [1910]; "Democracy and Education" [1916]; "Creative Intelli-gence" [1917] by John Dewey & others; "Essays In Experimental Logic" [1918]; "Reconstruction In Philosophy" [1919]; "Letters From China and Japan" [1920]; "Human Nature and Conduct" [1921]; and "China, Japan and The U.S.A." [1921] |
The Official Collected Works
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Works-John-Dewey-1882/dp/0809327910/ vol 1
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Works-John-Dewey-1882/dp/0809304023/ vol 3
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Works-John-Dewey-1882/dp/0809327953/ vol 5
http://www.amazon.com/John-Dewey-Middle-1899-1924-1899-1901/dp/0809307537/ vol 1
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809307545/ vol 2
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809307758/ vol 3
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899-1924/dp/0809328003/ vol 5
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899-1924/dp/0809308355/ vol 6
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-Miscellany/dp/0809328011/ vol 6
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809308827/ vol 8
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899-1924/dp/0809328046/ vol 9
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899-1924/dp/0809309335/ vol 9
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809328054/ vol 10
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809310031/ vol 11
http://www.amazon.com/John-Dewey-Middle-Works-1924/dp/080931004X/ vol 12
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/080931083X/ vol 13
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809328097/ vol 14
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Works-John-Dewey-1899/dp/0809310856/ vol 15
http://www.amazon.com/John-Dewey-Later-Works-1925-1953/dp/0809309866/ vol 1
http://www.amazon.com/Later-Works-John-Dewey-1925/dp/0809328135/ vol 3
Other Works
http://www.amazon.com/Poems-John-Dewey-Ann-Boydston/dp/0809308002/
 | "The Bertrand Russell Case" [1941] Edited by John Dewey & Horace M. Kallen Viking Press hardcover [1941] out of print/scarce book entry at Wikipedia |
Works About John Dewey
There is no IMDb listing for John Dewey, nor does any video/DVD product show up on a search at Amazon (2014)
 | "From Plato To Piaget: The Greatest Educational Theorists From Across The Centuries and Around The World" [1993] by William Cooney, Charles Cross & Barry Trunk Fifteen essays on the important role that education plays in our world, covering Plato, Confucius, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Johann Frederich Herbart, Horace Mann, William James, Booker T. Washington, John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, Shinichi Suzuki, and Jean Piaget – with Introduction and Conclusion Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [1993 edition] for $30.71 {sic} Univ Press of America 9x5½ pb [11/93] for $32.33 Univ Press of America 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/93] out of print/many used |
 | "Dewey in 90 Minutes" [2002] by Paul Strathern Ivan R. Dee, Publr 7¾x4¾ pb [11/2002] for $7.95 Ivan R. Dee, Publr hardcover [11/2002] for $14.95 |
 | "John Dewey, Robert Pirsig and The Art of Living: Revisioning Aesthetic Education" [2006] by David A. Granger
Palgrave Macmillan 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2006] for $90.00 |
 | "Dewey's Dream: Universities & Democracies In An Age of Education Reform - Civil Society, Public Schools & Democratic Citizenship" [2007] by Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy & John Puckett Temple Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/2007] for $18.95 Temple Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [3/2007] for $59.50 |
"John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education" [12/2014] by Clifford P. Harbour
http://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Future-Community-College-Education-ebook/dp/B00R191S7W/
http://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Future-Community-College-Education/dp/1441172920/
http://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Future-Community-College-Education/dp/1441122753/
Friends & Family
Educator John Dewey was born in October 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and died in June 1952 at age 92 in New York City.
L i n k s
John Dewey Society [est. 1935]
John Dewey entry Wikipedia
list of publications by John Dewey at Wikipedia
Center for Dewey Studies
John Dewey page at LearnStuff
I.E.P. pages
John Dewey Academy in Great Barrington, MA
John Dewey Academy of Learning charter school in Green Bay, Wisconsin
John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York
John Dewey College
John Dewey University
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