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Dewey (JOHN an American educator born)

JOHN, an American educator, born in Burlington, Vt., in 1859. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1879 and took post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota as professor of philosophy in 1888-1889, and at the University of Michigan from 1889 to 1894. From 1894 to 1904 he was professor and head of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago and was director of the School of Education at that institution from 1902 to 1904. From 1904 he was professor of philosophy at Columbia University, at the same time acting as lecturer on psychology. He was president of the American Psychological As- DEXTRIN sociation, and the American Philosophical Society. He wrote many works on philosophy and psychology, including "School and Society" (1899); "Studies in Logical Theory" ry" (1903); "How to Think" (1909); "German Philosophy and Politics" (1915); and "Democracy and Education" (1916).