Each pupil is dependent upon his or her experience to learn what the world is really like. Reality is what the learner's experience says it is. However, the learner must test his experience with the experience of others. What is real is what the greater number of learners have found to be true. The school should be the kind of environment where the individual can test his or her hunches.
Truth is used in our lives.
The ideal learner is a reflective doer, a person whose humanity is measured by the intelligence of his or her behavior or by his or her ability as the supreme problem solver. The teacher is a research-project director. He or she is the chairman of the board of directors of a learning industry. The teacher is a participant in this business of learning. He or she knows his or her subject matter but equally knows his or her students.