whatever the specific aims of schooling and learning,pragmatism stress the importance of the way in which we arrive at those aims. According to Dewey, aims should 1. grow out of existing condition, they should 2. be tentative,at least in the beginning,and maintain flexibility. Perhaps most important of all, the aims must 3. always be directed toward a freeing of activities, an "end in view." this last suggestion is central to Dewey's idea of education.