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On Dewey’s pragmatic educational philosophy and its modern value Abstract: American educator John Dewey’s educational thinking is the founder of pragmatism. Dewey with its philosophy of pragmatism as the basis for the nature of education, educational purposes, basic principles of education and other educational theories were discussed his ideas on pragmatism China education had a positive and negative effects. Keywords: pragmatism; educational thought; modern value American educator John Dewey’s educational thinking is the founder of pragmatism, he is an educator with a worldwide reputation. Dewey’s life, has repeatedly publicize the importance of education, he said: “Education is the social progress and social reform basic approach. “He thought is not easy, there is the background and its development process. With the” 54 “New Culture Movement, Dewey education as the core ideas of American pragmatism into China and these new educational ideas, With the comprehensive development of the market economy, China’s education had a positive and negative effects. A source of pragmatic meaning Pragmatism is one of the modern schools of Western philosophy as a systematic philosophical theory, resulting in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the first three decades of this century, reached its peak. “Pragmatism” comes from the Greek, the meaning of the act, and then extended to “practice” means. The founder of pragmatism, Peirce first used the term prima facie evidence of pragmatism to its basic spirit against speculative theories , advocating behavior, results-oriented. This spirit can be summed up in two phrases: exploration and practice, truth-seeking, enterprising. Many representatives of pragmatism, its main doctrine can be summarized as follows: First, from a personal, individual activities and the starting situation, research and resolve philosophical questions about people and secondly, pluralism and relativism, emphasizing the c