Activity by itself never constitutes experience. The concept of experience involves the aspects of doing and undergoing. When the individual experiences something, he both acts upon it and enjoys or undergoes the consequences of it. The connection between these active and passive elements in experience is the measure of the experiential value. Dewey deplored the rigid, passive and unquestioning methods of the traditional schools.
Lectures merely provide the individual with information.
The pupil must act upon the information through experience prior to the acquisition of knowledge. Discipline is internal and positive. A pupil must be trained to consider his actions so that he will undertake them with deliberation. A pupil is disciplined when he understands what he must do and is moved to undertake the action quickly, using the requisite means necessary. When the pupil possesses the power to endure in an intelligently induced course of action in the face of obstacles, he is disciplined.