For John Dewey, there was nothing as important as education, not only on an individual level but also on the societal. He was a champion of democracy and longed to see it thrive, but for this to occur he knew that we must first take the necessary steps to build an educational system that allowed for each citizen to make full use of his/her capacity.
[Dewey is the pioneering pragmatic philosopher. In this video his idea of approaches to education for individual and societal success is outlinedl]