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We have to return to Pestalozzi to find an educationist who so dominated the educational stage as John Dewey did throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and he played this part by virtue of the fact that in him were concentrated in a special degree the progressive tendencies of his age and country. Writing of the democratic way of life and the significance in it of intelligence, Dewey explained that he did not invent this faith but acquired it from his surroundings, and the same explanation might be offered for the other features of his philosophic and educational outlook.
1859–1952. A biography of John Dewey edited by his daughter is prefixed to The Philosophy of John Dewey, edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp, being vol. i of The Library of Living Philosophers (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University, 1939). John Dewey: Master Educator, edited by W. W. Brickman and S. Lehrer (New York: Society for the Advancement of Education, 1959).
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Cf. Morton G. White, The Origin of Dewey’s Instrumentalism (New York: Columbia University Press), 194
Cf. W. B. Gallie, Peirce and Pragmatism (Penguin Books, 1952).
James K. Feibleman, An Introduction to Peirce’s Philosophy (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960).
Human Nature and Conduct (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1922), pp. 34, 36.
Cf. T. Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, English translation, vol. i, ch. 1 (London: John Murray, 1901).
R. H. S. Crossman, Plato To-day (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937), p. 225.
Quoted by Jacques Maritain in Education at the Cross Roads (Yale University Press, 1943), p. 55.
E. Meyerson, Identity and Reality. English translation (New York, The Macmillan Co., 1930), p. 396.
H. E. Armstrong, The Teaching of Scientific Method (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925), ‘The Heuristic Method’.
Cf. Max Wertheimer, Productive Thinking (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1943), pp. 190–1.
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Rusk, R.R. (1969). Dewey. In: The Doctrines of the Great Educators. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15372-5_13
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