Pragmatists see the construction of knowledge as a logic-based testing of ideas against experience. Existentialists assume there is no logic or meaning inherent in experience. Meaning arises because people have to act. Sometimes we do things because an authority figure tells us to, or because we are fearful of what will happen to us if we don't, or because we have blinded ourselves to the consequences of our acts. All these motives have in common the fact that we are acting without inner moral conviction.
Existentialist education is too personal to fit a tidy plan.
Schools ought to be places where all the impediments to the search for inner direction have been removed. Rules and authoritarian pronouncement have no place in the existentialist classroom. Everything must be open to question and the individual must freely choose to participate. Each person has a unique perspective. The teacher should try to understand how the student sees the world and should help the student express and act upon deeply felt intentions.