John Dewey was a philosopher, social reformer, and educator who founded the philosophical movement known as pragmatism. Born on October 20, 1859, in Burlington Vermont and died on June 1, 1952. He graduated in 1879 and started teaching at a high school for two years. Dewey sent a philosophy essay to W.T. Harris who was an editor in a philosophy journal. Harris sent an acceptance letter that encouraged him to follow his dream. Dewey then decided to become a philosopher and traveled to Boston to enroll at Johns Hopkins University. In 1894, Dewey started at the University of Chicago that would lead him to develop his own philosophy of education. However, for Dewey to achieve this he would need to expose what he felt was wrong in the current
