Right from the start, the rumpled-look-ing graduate student from Vermont made a deep impression on President Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins University. But President Gilman did think that the young man was off on a wrong track. "Don't be so bookish," Gilman thundered. "Get out and see more people." Student John Dewey listened politely to his president, and then ignored the advice. He had long since made up his mind that he would keep right on studying: his ambition in life was to become a philosopher.
In time, John Dewey more than realized his ambition. A shy, shuffling figure, he probably...
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