1. Criticize the traditional educational theory regardless of children's personality characteristics and the needs of social life changes.
2. Advocate that education is life, education is the constant transformation of experience, and school is society.
3. Emphasize children's center, criticize the old education's emphasis on teachers and textbooks, and think that children are the center of education, just like the earth goes around the sun, and the role of teachers is to organize and guide students' activities according to their characteristics and needs.
4. Attach importance to children's experience, interests and needs, emphasize the initiative and creativity of children's development, and emphasize the teaching practice with children as the main body, that is, learning by doing.
5. Think that the education process is a process of joint participation and cooperation between teachers and students, and advocate equality between teachers and students. Dewey put forward that "in order to make the education process a real process of joint participation of teachers and students, a real process of cooperation and interaction, both teachers and students should participate equally and scholars." [1] That is to say, while emphasizing the children's center, pragmatic education also advocates the establishment of a democratic and equal teacher-student relationship.