Plasticity

Examples

• Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We have already noted that plasticity is the capacity to retain and carry over from prior experience factors which modify subsequent activities. 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.
• By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As soon as the wax had softened to the plasticity of dough she kneaded the pieces together. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Routine habits, and habits that possess us instead of our possessing them, are habits which put an end to plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There can be no doubt of the tendency of organic plasticity, of the physiological basis, to lessen with growing years. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The specific adaptability of an immature creature for growth constitutes his plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The child inherits less definitely organized instincts, but gre ater plasticity, than the lower animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This is something quite different from the plasticity of putty or wax. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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