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John Dewey

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noun

  1. United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
Princeton WordNet 3.0

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I recall Miss Lathrop's Plato club and an audience who listened to a series of lectures by Dr. John Dewey on "Social Psychology" as geniune intellectual groups consisting largely of people from the immediate neighborhood, who were willing to make "that effort from which we all shrink, the effort of thought."
Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #1325