Pragmatism education is an important branch of western modern bourgeois education thought. Advocating a child-centered, democratic and equal relationship between teachers and students had a great influence on the relationship between teachers and students in China in the 1920s and 1930s.

In the educational theory at that time, most people advocated criticizing the dignity of teachers, emphasizing the need to liberate students, take students as the center, learn from students, establish a democratic, equal and cooperative relationship between teachers and students, and carry out enlightening education according to students' individual psychological characteristics.

We should learn from the theory and experience at that time, explore the relationship between teachers and students in the new period, and seriously think about how to deal with the problems closely related to the relationship between teachers and students, such as foreign and local, traditional and modern, teachers and students' status, teachers' teaching and students' learning, so as to build a more scientific theory of the relationship between teachers and students and establish a more harmonious relationship between teachers and students.

An important school of western modern bourgeois educational thought. /kloc-appeared in the United States at the end of 0/9. Dewey, an American philosopher and educator, is its advocate and the most important representative. Dewey is different from Pierce and James, the founders of pragmatic philosophy. He does not tend to regard philosophy as purely academic, but advocates linking it with the actual affairs of mankind.

Dewey tried to apply pragmatic philosophy to educational theory and design a blueprint for the reform of American school education. In his educational works, pragmatic philosophy and educational theory are integrated.

Dewey said that if philosophy is regarded as a process that inevitably affects people's behavior and education is regarded as a tendency to shape people's rationality and emotion, then we can give a most profound definition under philosophy, that is, "philosophy is the general theory of education" and "education is a laboratory for concretizing and testing various philosophical viewpoints".

Therefore, in the United States, pragmatic philosophy is basically a school of educational philosophy.