Nothing can be more useful than for the public and the teaching profession to understand their respective functions. The teacher needs to understand public opinion and the social order, as much as the public needs to comprehend the nature of expert educational service. It will take time to draw the boundary lines that will be conducive to respect, restraint, and efficiency in those concerned; but a beginning can be made upon fundamental matters, and nothing so touches the foundations of our educational thought as a discussion of the moral principles in education.
By John Dewey (1859 –1952), an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He formed the basic principles of education, which defined tendency of many of pedagogical innovations of the twentieth century.