![]() ![]() After two years of teaching high school Latin, algebra, and science, Dewey returned to Burlington to teach in a rural school closer to home. Finally, a cousin who was the principal of a high school in South Oil City, Pennsylvania, offered him a teaching position which paid $40 a month. ![]() ![]() There were few jobs for college graduates in Burlington, and Dewey spent three anxious months searching for work. There, after two years of average work, he graduated first in a class of 18 in 1879. His father hoped that John might become a mechanic, and it is quite possible that John might not have gone to college if the University of Vermont had not been located just down the street. He delivered newspapers, did his chores, and enjoyed exploring the woodlands and waterways around Burlington. John, the third of their four sons, was a shy boy and an average student. His father, whose ancestors came to America in 1630, was the proprietor of Burlington's general store, and his mother was the daughter of a local judge. During his lifetime the United States developed from a simple frontier-agricultural society to a complex urban-industrial nation, and Dewey developed his educational ideas largely in response to this rapid and wrenching period of cultural change. He was born in 1859 in Burlington, Vermont, and he died in New York City in 1952. ![]()
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