[doo-ee, dyoo-ee] 
| 1. | George, 1837–1917, U.S. admiral: defeated Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. |
| 2. | John, 1859–1952, U.S. philosopher and educator. |
| 3. | Mel⋅vil [mel-vil] , (Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey ), 1851–1931, U.S. educator, administrator, and innovator in the field of library science. |
| 4. | Thomas E(dmund), 1902–71, U.S. lawyer and political leader. |
| 5. | a male given name, form of David. |
| Dewey, John 1859-1952. American philosopher and educator who was a leading exponent of philosophical pragmatism and rejected traditional methods of teaching by rote in favor of a broad-based system of practical experience. |
A philosopher and educational reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a philosopher, Dewey followed pragmatism, and its practical orientation carried over into his educational ideas, which became the basis of progressive education.