embyronic

Updated: May 3, 2025

This idea has had such immense influence upon higher instruction especially, that it is worth examination in its extreme formulation. In the first place, its biological basis is fallacious. Embyronic growth of the human infant preserves, without doubt, some of the traits of lower forms of life. But in no respect is it a strict traversing of past stages.

John Dewey - Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education