{"id":6085,"date":"2018-02-23T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2018-02-23T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:30:24","slug":"history-education-john-dewey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/2018\/02\/23\/history-education-john-dewey\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Education: John Dewey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jack Wilkie<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Dewey\u2019s influence on modern education was (and continues to be) simply enormous. What\u00a0Horace\u00a0Mann meant to the 1800s, Dewey meant every bit as much to the 1900s. His contributions to government schooling are still recognized as being monumental even though he died over sixty years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<i>Life<\/i>\u00a0magazine recognized him as one of the 100 Most Important Americans of the 20th\u00a0Century.<span data-fontsize=\"12\">i<\/span>\u00a0He was even featured on a United States postage stamp as a part of the \u201cProminent Americans\u201d series. His influence wasn\u2019t limited to education, either, as he is noted for his prominence in political and philosophical fields, as well. \u201cHe became a primary influence in the world of thought. That the \u2018new thinking\u2019 at the turn of the twentieth century became \u2018the way the world thinks\u2019 can be laid at the feet of this man who more than all others made education in America what it is today.\u201d<span data-fontsize=\"12\">ii<\/span>\u00a0One man (through his interest in philosophy and ability to implement it through the minds of children) is credited with influencing the thought patterns and worldview of an entire culture. This presents us with two biographical questions about the man\u2019s life: How did he achieve this level of influence,\u00a0and how did he make use of it?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nAfter receiving his Ph.D. in 1884, Dewey went into teaching at the university level at Michigan and Minnesota. From there he advanced to the position of head professor of Chicago University\u2019s philosophy department. While there,\u00a0he founded the Laboratory School basically for the purpose of experimenting with new ideas in education. During this time he wrote multiple works on the topic of education, including \u201cMy Pedagogic Creed,\u201d \u201cThe School and Society,\u201d \u201cThe Child and the Curriculum,\u201d \u201cDemocracy and Education,\u201d \u201cMoral Principles in Education,\u201d and more. In addition to his writings and the Laboratory School, Dewey later shaped the world of education through his time at Columbia University, where he put the framework in place for the training of thousands of teachers. Through these works and his experimentation he shaped much of the 20th\u00a0century thinking on education not only in the United States, but also around the world. Educators and leaders from other countries based their programs on Dewey\u2019s ideas and philosophy on education. And, since the 20th\u00a0century saw the most growth and innovation in\u00a0early childhood education, it\u2019s fair to say that Dewey was the most influential framer of the modern education system.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nBy the time he took an interest in education,\u00a0the groundwork for compulsory schooling had already been put into place thanks to the lasting work of Horace Mann. Additionally, Dewey\u2019s birth year coincided with the release of Charles Darwin\u2019s book\u00a0<i>On the Origin of Species<\/i>. So, Dewey grew up in a world where the spread of Darwin\u2019s theories\u00a0really had begun to take hold. From the things he said, it\u2019s easy to see that Dewey\u2019s thought processes on education and children were based heavily in Darwin\u2019s theories.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nDewey&#8217;s thought was also strongly influenced by the naturalism of Charles Darwin\u00a0(1809-1882). It was from Darwin&#8217;s\u00a0<i>The Origin of Species<\/i>, published in 1859, that\u00a0Dewey got his concept of the human being as a highly complex natural organism\u00a0that continually\u00a0accommodates itself to some environing conditions and alters\u00a0others to meet its needs. Dewey conceived of education as virtually synonymous\u00a0with this evolutionary process.<span data-fontsize=\"12\">iii<\/span>\u00a0Dewey interpreted education from Darwin\u2019s theories much the same way Marx, Lenin, and their followers interpreted politics and economics through Darwin. The individual has\u00a0no value other than the role he plays in\u00a0society. His duty is not to himself, God, or his family, but to his culture. Dewey once wrote,\u00a0\u201cChildren who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.\u201d Yes, the man who influenced American education more than any other listed stopping children from thinking at the top of his list of goals.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nThis is consistent with Dewey\u2019s character, as he had no respect for or belief in a deity of any type and therefore placed no value on individual souls. To better understand his philosophies of man, God, and government, read the\u00a0<i>Humanist Manifesto I<\/i>. Listed as a co-author and widely credited as one of the leaders of the project, Dewey showed exactly what he thought about such crucial matters. In it we see that humanists believe that the universe is self-existing, that man evolved, that the time has passed for theism, that prayer and worship have been replaced by efforts to promote social well being, etc.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nThese thoughts formed Dewey\u2019s religion, and we can see today that he was highly successful in putting his beliefs into action through the schools. His worldview was comprehensive and his life was spent in chasing the goals necessitated by that worldview. His work provided a foundation and a foot in the door for the secular humanist movement, and that work has made it the dominant religion in America today. As with Mann, Dewey\u2019s work needed time to take hold, but before his life ended in 1952,\u00a0the process had already begun in the courts.\u00a0We\u2019ll take a look at that aspect of our history in next month\u2019s article.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Wilkie John Dewey\u2019s influence on modern education was (and continues to be) simply enormous. What\u00a0Horace\u00a0Mann meant to the 1800s, Dewey meant every bit as much to the 1900s. 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