 Alice Chipman Dewey (1858–1927) is generally credited with bringing Dewey’s philosophic Hegelian thinking into contact with real social issues. She was raised in Michigan by her pioneering grandfather and attended a Baptist seminary after high school. Her lifelong interest in education led her to be a school teacher. This work along with her commitment to the women’s rights movement led her to study at the University of Michigan where she met John Dewey. Their daughter Jane described Alice’s influence on John by saying that “things which previously had been matters of theory acquired through his contact with her a vital and direct human significance” (Rockefeller 1991: 150).  Alice Dewey continued her interest in education as principal of University of Chicago Lab School where she worked with Dewey on experimental and experiential education reform. 