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Dewey was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan after completing his doctorate from Johns Hopkins in 1884 and on to study at the University of Michigan. After marriage, Dewey and his family moved from Michigan to the University of Minnesota in 1888, where he was a philosophy professor. Within a year, the returned to University of Michigan, where he taught for the following five years. Dewey became the dean of the University of Chicago's philosophy department in 1894.
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Dewey gained a teaching job at a seminary in Oil City, Pennsylvania, the autumn after he graduated, but he lost it two years later. Dewey returned to Vermont after being laid off and began teaching at a private school. He read philosophical treatises in his spare time and discussed them with his former teacher. Choosing to take a halt teaching, Dewey studied philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins as his interest in the subject grew.
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https://youtu.be/y3fm6wNzK70 Attached is a better explanation of the 4 Principles of Education.
John Dewey Produced this book, The School and Society, in 1899. -
While Dewey believed that democracy was the ideal form of government, he argued that America's democracy had been stressed since the Industrial Revolution. He argued that, rather of benefiting society as a whole, industrialization had quickly created immense wealth for only a few people. Dewey became president of the People's Lobby after seeing the major political parties as servants of big business.