Early Years
The first president to be assassinated. This assassination happened during Dewey's earliest years.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This parent seems to have played the most important role in John Dewey's educational goals.
Who is his mother (Lucina)?
The number of years Dewey taught at the University of Michigan.
What is 10 years (almost 10 years)?
The length of time John Dewey taught at the UChicago.
What is 10 years?
The year John Dewey published Moral Principles in Education while working at Columbia University.
The city and state where John Dewey was born.
What is Burlington, Vermont?
John Dewey's undergraduate major at the University of Vermont
What is Philosophy?
She was John Dewey's former student and would eventually become his wife.
Who was Harriet Alice Chipman?
John Dewey was a supporter of this movement for women's voting rights.
What is the Suffrage Movement?
The year John Dewey joined Columbia University's Teacher College.
What is 1904?
The year John Dewey was born.
What is 1859?
John Dewey's age when he graduated from high school.
What is 15?
John Dewey introduced this term during his years at the University of Michigan. It's the belief that ideas are strictly valued based on their ability to solve real-world problems.
What is instrumentalism?
The third U.S. president to be assassinated. This occurred during John Dewey's tenure at UChicago.
Who is William McKinley?
During his time at Teachers College, Dewey was a founder of this university in New York City. It was established as a space for faculty and students to freely and honestly address social problems.
What is The New School?
The number of states in the U.S. when John Dewey was born.
What is 33?
The university where John Dewey was awarded his PhD.
Dewey's views on the relationship between these two topic initially appeared during his tenure at the University of Michigan.
What are democracy and education?
He became president after the third assassination of a U.S. president.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt)?
During his time at Teachers College, Dewey was a founder of this organization that defends the freedoms granted in the Constitution and Bill of Rights
What is the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)?
When Dewey was born, he was the 15th U.S. President.
Who is James Buchanan?
He was the second U.S. President to be assassinated. His life was cut short happened while John Dewey was pursuing his PhD.
Who is James Garfield?
He is the first president to serve nonconsecutive terms. He was in his second term while Dewey was teaching at the University of Michigan.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This Chicago community of settlement houses championed immigrant rights and social reform. John Dewey was on its first board of trustees.
What is the Jade Addams Hull House?
The year John Dewey retired from Columbia University, even though he continued working until he passed away in 1952.
What is 1930?