In the stage of diversified development of education, American educator Dewey founded pragmatic pedagogy.

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 a purely academic thing, 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.

Dewey is an idealistic empiricist. He used "? Philosophical terms such as pragmatism, experimentalism, instrumentalism or empirical experimentalism are basically synonymous, and their central concept is experience. Pragmatists believe that the most fundamental thing in the world is pure experience. As Lenin pointed out, "It preaches experience, and only experiences …". Different from traditional empiricism, Dewey believes that experience is the result of the interaction between organism and environment. The so-called interaction means that organisms not only passively adapt to the environment, but also act on the environment.

Therefore, changes caused by the environment in turn have a negative impact on the human body and its activities. This close relationship between action and encounter forms the so-called "experience". So he said, "Cognition itself is an action". He also made it clear that "behind my educational career, there is a rather abstract idea about the relationship between knowledge and action". This idea is the core of Dewey's educational theory.

Dewey confirmed that "all learning comes from experience" from the central concept of "experience", and emphasized that believing that real education comes from experience does not mean that all experiences have or play an educational role on an equal footing. Experience and education cannot be equated directly. The standard to measure the value of an experience lies in whether we can see the continuity and interactivity caused by this experience. In his book Experience and Education, he elaborated on the two principles of continuity and interaction of experience. It is in this sense that he declared that "education is life" and that education, as a process, means "constantly reorganizing experience and reorganizing experience". The philosophy I am discussing belongs to experience, because experience is also for experience. This is Dewey's summary of applying empiricism and experimental philosophy to educational theory.