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John Dewey (1859)close

John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont. In 1896, he established a Laboratory School at the University of Chicago to put his educational theories into practice. He has been thought of as the "father of progressive education" and his theories emphasized the combination of learning with concrete activity.

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