Child-centered view of students. The Association for Progressive Education has issued "Seven Principles for Improving Primary Education", which expounds the educational concept of taking children as the center, holds that it is children who decide school courses and activities instead of traditional subject contents and values, and emphasizes children's freedom, creativity and problem-solving ability. The task of education is to provide children with appropriate materials according to their different stages of instinctive growth and promote the expression and development of instinct. Therefore, education should be active and related to children's interests.

Life-oriented curriculum view. Dewey believes that "education is life" and "education is growth" [2]. Life and experience are the soul of education. No life, no experience, no growth, no education. School education should focus on the existing life situation, rather than systematically learning the existing liberal arts and science projects composed of scientific knowledge. The content of children's learning should be the direct experience formed by children's own activities, and various forms of activities should be placed in a prominent position in the school curriculum.

The teaching concept of solving problems as a method. Dewey pointed out that "the process of teaching is the process of cultivating thinking habits". According to the order of thinking, teachers should first set up real experience situations that students are interested in, so that students can have real problems in the situations, so that students can fully occupy the learning materials and observe the problems; Finally, the idea of learning is verified by application. This teaching step runs through in the form of "activities" and takes the needs of children as the center. Therefore, this teaching method can make students actively act and think.

Teachers' view of diluting authority consciousness. Progressive educators oppose the arbitrary leading role of teachers in traditional education, and believe that the education system formed by superior authority passing on what must be accepted to lower recipients is not education, but indoctrination and publicity. The teacher's job is only to decide how to train children in life on the basis of more experience and more mature knowledge. Therefore, in the view of progressive educators, a teacher's "authority" can only be reflected in his "experience" and "knowledge", which greatly dilutes the teacher's authority consciousness in traditional education.

A school view that emphasizes the spirit of cooperation. Progressive educators believe that schools should encourage students to cooperate and teachers should pay attention to cultivating students' cooperative spirit. School should be the real form of vivid social life, not just a place to study homework; Society is made up of individuals who follow a common line and have a common goal. Schools should adopt various forms of activity homework so that children can learn through direct life.