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John Dewey was born in 1859 in Burlington, Vermont
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He became a professor for 47 years at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City
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John Dewey and his wife, Alice Chapman Dewey, founded the University of Chicago Laboratory School. They did this because the wanted to implement their philosophy of humane approach to education.
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Along with his colleagues Charles Beard, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson and Wesley Clair Mitchell, John Dewey also founded The New School for Social Research.
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John Dewey died in New York, New York at the age of 92.
