John Dewey saw the destruction of a child's individualistic traits as the primary goal of education . Once this was accomplished the youngster would conform to whatever society in which he found himself. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent. No child is permitted to forge ahead of another. This would hurt the group.
Nobody is left behind because of poor work.
This would disrupt the group. Dewey's socialistic fervor led him to become honorary national chairman of the League for Industrial Democracy, the American counterpart of the socialist British Fabian Society. Fabians believed the best way to achieve a socialistic society was by a gradual process. The philosophy of the classroom in this generation will be the philosophy of politics, government and life in the next. Dewey, who had a bent for a socialistic society vs. a republic anyway, objected to any view of education as a means of transmitting established or absolute truths, whose existence had no place within his philosophy of pragmatism, which judges truth in terms of what works in experience.