<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Deweyism is the philosophy of education expounded by John Dewey in his 1897 article "My Pedagogic Creed". It emphasized social interaction and group learning over individual education, and became the dominant influence on American education . </P> <P> According to John Dewey's article "My Pedagogic Creed" (1897), education is only as individual as our society allows it to be . We (people) are unconsciously trained from birth . Our social consciousness, our cultural ways and what we value are a mock up of a collective social being, according to Dewey . We are all a product of our social surroundings from birth through adulthood and death . Eventually we "become an inheritor of the funded capital of civilization ." Dewey exerts that individual best is achieved in the spirit of and for the greater good . "Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling and to conceive of himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs ." As a member of society, we are confined to language and its meanings, but also empowered by it . </P>

Who emphasized that education should be a social process