In conclusion, Dewey’s perspective on learning and education is centered around a real-life inquiry, which has to be analysed in its complexity. The inquiry acts like “a magnet for content”, it motivates further analysis of content and input of several disciplines in order to explain and solve that complex inquiry as a whole“ (Dewey 1931). In that, the Dewey approach meets the main aspects of constructivist learning. It involves the student throughout the learning process, suggests to balance instruction and construction, and more or less allows experience in real-life situations. Although Dewey described his method theoretically, the complexity and abstractness of these recommendations is the crux of the matter for teachers to actually implement them into schools. His recommendations are not enough to get over the difficulties of teaching complex phenomena in a holistic constructivist manner. That might be why education today is still focused on breaking down complex phenomena into smaller, isolated subjects. This is because they are easier to implement and distribute to students in the first place. This is why we compared Dewey’s method to Design Thinking, as we believe that Design Thinking can give concrete recommendations for distributing a complex phenomena without abstracting too much, but still being digestible for the student and implementable for the teacher