This is why the family and neighborhood, with all their deficiencies, have always been the chief agencies of nurture, the means by which dispositions are stably formed and ideas acquired which laid hold on the roots of character.
Dewey discusses the foundational role of family and neighborhood in shaping character and ideas.
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