John Dewey was a philosopher and educator in the United States. He was an influential thinker in his time and is still considered one of the most important philosophers of education.
Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont to a poor family. His father died when he was nine months old, leaving him with his mother, brother George, and sister Alice to support.
He attended local schools until he went to college at age 16 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He graduated from there with a degree in philosophy in 1880 and continued on to teach at several other colleges before settling down at University of Chicago as a professor of philosophy in 1894 where he would spend the rest of his life until retirement in 1929.
John Dewey felt that the United States had no business getting involved in World War 1. He believed that the war was a European conflict and that America should stay out of it. He felt that if we did get involved it would be an embarrassment for us because we did not have any real ties to any countries involved other than Great Britain which became our ally during World War 2 when they needed our help against Germany again!
