John dewey is a famous American philosopher, educator, psychologist, master of pragmatism, and one of the founders of functional psychology and modern pedagogy.

The Essence of Education is his views on education, growth and life. He believes that "education is life and school is society". He believes that education is the process of children's life, not the preparation for future life. He said: life is development, and continuous development is life. Therefore, the best education is "learning from life and learning from experience". Education is to provide children with conditions to ensure their growth or complete life. For growth, growth is the characteristic of life, so education is the growth of life.

In his view, education is not forced to exist in children's growth process and life, but in our life, but the best education is to learn from life, so as to gain experience, and then grow from experience, teaching and learning learn from each other. He opposes imposing education on children's growth.