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en-wikipedia-org-5817		John Dewey - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13971	1326	63	The overriding theme of Dewey's works was his profound belief in democracy, be it in politics, education, or communication and journalism.[5] As Dewey himself stated in 1888, while still at the University of Michigan, "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous."[6] Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—to be major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey was also a major educational reformer for the 20th century.[3] A well-known public intellectual, he was a major voice of progressive education and liberalism.[10][11] While a professor at the University of Chicago, he founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to apply and test his progressive ideas on pedagogical method.[12][13] Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5817.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5817.txt