New College for the Education of Teachers was a progressive undergraduate college under the auspices of Teachers College, Columbia University that existed from 1932 to 1939. It does not represent the
Teachers College, view down West 120th Street
John Dewey
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
New College, Teachers College, Columbia University
…Likewise, the Teachers College faculty was less than cooperative with New College with the exception of notable professors William Chandler Bagley, John Dewey, William Heard Kilpatrick, and George S. Counts. In the minds of some faculty members, if New College was the best way to educate teachers, according…
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Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902
Dewey and Hu Shih, c. 1938–1942
Dewey in China in 1920