... legacy of his early neo-Hegelianism is his style of progressively unfolding definitions. The result can be confusing. As an early commentator once complained, "definitions make the fibre of [his] book, and even the favorite form of sentence. The author is always working from partial to complete definitions or conversely."(12) Thus what appear to be formal definitions in Dewey's prose ... to cultivate what are natural and spontaneous abilities in children, adults lose some of their capacity to grow. Dewey identifies these capacities as the child's natural dependence and plasticity. He no...

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