We first look with impatience upon immaturity, regarding it as something to be got over as rapidly as possible. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Sidney Webb, in the customary Fabian fashion, had dismissed the General Strike as a sign of socialist immaturity. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The primary condition of growth is immaturity. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability,--the pouter to grow. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
But the prefix im of the word immaturity means something positive, not a mere void or lack. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The true principle of respect for immaturity cannot be better put than in the words of Emerson: Respect the child. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
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. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.