Immaturity

Examples

• We first look with impatience upon immaturity, regarding it as something to be got over as rapidly as possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Sidney Webb, in the customary Fabian fashion, had dismissed the General Strike as a sign of socialist immaturity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The primary condition of growth is immaturity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability,--the pouter to grow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the prefix im of the word immaturity means something positive, not a mere void or lack. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The true principle of respect for immaturity cannot be better put than in the words of Emerson: Respect the child. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To one of middle age the countenance was that of a young man, though a youth might hardly have seen any necessity for the term of immaturity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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