g the influence of teachers and parents, and this formative process is not merely acceptable but necessary. W... le effects on what the child thinks and does. The formative force of education may be more powerful than Mill... nfluence scholars have increasingly recognised as formative — were directly influential on nineteenth-century... fies the substance of thought — suggests that the formative force of education is more pervasive than Mill's
gible military value — he would later cite as the formative experience of his pacifism and his lifelong scept... the most important intellectual influences of her formative years. Cornel West, the philosopher and activist,
of printers — a background he has reflected on as formative, since it meant that "literacy and the struggles ... itical context of his doctoral education was also formative: the revolutionary protests and radical organisin
