irreflective

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Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

But this he can bear, because his noble mind recognises its own greatness; he regards his jeering brethren in the same light as the philosophic writer beholds 'the vapid and irreflective reader.'

From Some Private Views by Payn, James

But how could we think it, if the only possible life was that one which we intend to think, and not the one with which we think this irreflective life?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

The vapid and irreflective reader may jump to the conclusion that Jimmy was a casuist, and ought to have been ashamed of himself.

From The Gem Collector by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)