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John Dewey was born in 1859 in Burlington, Vermont USA, the third of four children to Archibald Dewey and Lucina Artemisia Rich.

He attended the University of Vermont, where he graduated in 1879. Following this, he spent three years teaching in secondary education, before deciding that he would teach in further education rather than primary or secondary.

Dewey met Alice Chipman in 1884, who would later become his wife and with whom he would have seven children. Alice died in 1927 and Dewey later went on to marry a widow named Roberta Grant.

In 1894, Dewey accepted a position at the University of Chicago where he was to head the department of Philosophy and Psychology. In 1904, Dewey resigned from this post and spent the rest of his teaching years at Colombia University in New York.

When the First World War came to an end in 1918, Dewey travelled around the world, teaching both in Japan and China. Dewey retired from teaching in 1930, however, he continued to publish papers illustrating his ideas, in total he published over three hundred.

John Dewey died on June 1st 1952 in New York.