Hu Shih vs. John Dewey
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Hu Shih
1891 – 1962
Hu Shih was a Chinese academic, writer, diplomat, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform, and was a leading advocate for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He participated in the May Fourth Movement and China's New Culture Movement.
"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."
John Dewey
1859 – 1952
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
"p. 407–8 cited in: Hilary Putnam "Pragmatism and nonscientific knowledge" James Conant, Urszula M. Zeglen Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism. p. 21"