American philosopher, psychologist and teacher Д.Дьюи - one of the most prominent and influential thinkers of ХХ of century.Due to Дьюи, in many countries of the world cardinally going changed near the methods of educating. At the experimental school Дьюи managed to carry out the idea of "educating doing", when children not only acquired knowledge but also studied to use them, т. of е. truly lived, rather than just prepared to adult life.So the called "method of projects" and "productive educating", more elaborate afterwards his students, assist development and self-regulation of personality, teach oriented in a culture and co-operate with other people.Reading of works of Дьюи is heavy labour. But a serious and patient reader will be rewarded. Дьюи extraordinarily in detail examines the problems of democratization of education, sifting them through sieve of the meticulous analysis, unseals the submarine stones of psychology of man, bringing him over to the false understanding of one or another phenomena of life, teaches readers to find rational grains in contradictory judgements.