ABSTRACT
The term "pragmatism" is popularly associated with the names of John Dewey and of the American philosopher and psychologist, William James, but it has become evident that the actual term "pragmatism", used in a technical and philosophical sense, is first employed by the logician and applied mathematician, C. S. Peirce. Dewey opposed the mechanistic psychology of behaviourism, and accepted that all persons had basic individual differences. Dewey said that philosophy might be defines as the general theory of education, or as the theory of education "in its most general phases". The methods employed by Dewey in Laboratory School grew quite naturally out of pragmatic philosophy and psychological theories. The great objections to pragmatism, as also to hedonism, is that can be wise only after the event, since can never really fully foresee the final outcome of activity.
