"Things as they are and as they are likely to be encountered in life rather than words" was the slogan of the

The slogan "things as they are and as they are likely to be encountered in life rather than words" belongs to the Realists, who root education in the objective external world of facts.

Realism holds that matter and the physical world exist independently of the mind, so knowledge comes through the senses and observation.

Pragmatists stress learning by doing and testing ideas through practical consequences, not fidelity to an external reality.

Idealists treat ultimate reality as mind or spirit and prize eternal ideas and values over material things.

Existentialists centre education on individual freedom, choice and subjective existence rather than on things as they are.

Realism in education is traced to Aristotle, with its later scientific form shaped by John Locke and Comenius.