Dewey went through an "evangelical" development as a child. As an adult he was negative, or at most neutral, about theology in education. He instead took a meliorist position with the goal of scientific humanism and educational and social reform without recourse to religion.Leo R. Ward, "Theology and Liberal Education in Dewey." Modern Age 21.2 (1977): 139-146.
Dewey went through an "evangelical" development as a child. As an adult he was negative, or at most neutral, about theology in education. He instead took a meliorist position with the goal of scientific humanism ?and educational and social reform without recourse to religion.Leo R. Ward, "Theology and Liberal Education in Dewey." Modern Age 21.2 (1977): 139-146.