As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

See also
List of American philosophers
Center for Dewey Studies
Democratic education
John Dewey Society
Inquiry-based science
Laboratory school
Learning by teaching
League for Independent Political Action. He has been called an instrumentalist an experimentalist an empiricist a functionalist and a naturalist. In 1899 Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20 1859 – June 1 1952) was an American philosopher psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education he also wrote about many other topics including experience nature art logic inquiry democracy and ethics.