Then come the great classics, literature, and art. Finally, there comes the study of philosophy. A stimulus-response type of learning is characteristic of the reality influence in education. Schedules, order, books, and the perceptual world of things is emphasized. Demonstrations and audio-visual aids are all a very real part of the realist approach to education.
Motivation is also a part of the approach they use.
The Social Outcome F. S. Breed held that the purpose of education was the establishment of the most effectual relationships between the individual and his or her external environment. The demands of environment, of life, of society, of school and curriculum are easily seen to represent in essence the independent object postulated by the realist, the scientist, and the common man. This led to his matter-form hypothesis. That which we experience with our senses is not a mere copy but the real world. Otherwise, he was a realist who believed that what he was able to perceive with his senses must match what others have perceived.