Editing John Dewey (section)

=== Early life and education ===
John Dewey was born in [[Burlington, Vermont]], to a family of modest means.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gutek |first=Gerald L. |title=Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: A Biographical Introduction. |publisher=Pearson Education Inc. |location=Upper Saddle River, NJ |isbn=978-0-13-113809-4 |page=338|year=2005 }}</ref> He was one of four boys born to Archibald Sprague Dewey and Lucina Artemisia Rich Dewey. Their first son was [[Necronym|also named John]], but he died in an accident on January 17, 1859. The second John Dewey was born October 20, 1859, forty weeks after the death of his older brother. Like his older, surviving brother, [[Davis Rich Dewey]], he attended the [[University of Vermont]], where he was initiated into [[Delta Psi (University of Vermont)|Delta Psi]], and graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]]<ref>[http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=&id=59 Who Belongs To Phi Beta Kappa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103230618/http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=&id=59 |date=2012-01-03 }}, Phi Beta Kappa website, accessed Oct 4, 2009</ref> in 1879.

A significant professor of Dewey's at the University of Vermont was [[Henry Augustus Pearson Torrey]] (H.A.P. Torrey), the son-in-law and nephew of former University of Vermont president [[Joseph Torrey (academic)|Joseph Torrey]]. Dewey studied privately with Torrey between his graduation from Vermont and his enrollment at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>[http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/dewey/dewey.html bio of Dewey from ''Bowling Green State University''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102195748/http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/dewey/dewey.html |date=2011-01-02 }}</ref><ref>[[Louis Menand]], ''The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in the United States''. New York: Farrar, Staus and Giroux, 2002.</ref>