Open-mindedness is a quality which will always exist where desire for knowledge is genuine. It only fails where other desires have become entangled with the belief that we already know the truth. That is why it is so much commoner in youth than in later life.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, Pt. 2：Education of character, chap. 14: General principles
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