"The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut off the mind from new stimuli. Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age."
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John Dewey, in Democracy and Education (1916), Section 13: The Nature of Method : Open-mindedness
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