Dewey's Understanding of Learning Process

Does the infant arrive blazing streams of previous existence? does he arrive complete with coded messages imbedded in the same way as other genetic defined characteristics. Does an infant learn completely from sensory experience or does he wait for those imbedded information to be withdrawn by significant sensory stimulation. Is that why we read to our children, play with them and coax them to be humans and not chimps? Dewey unlike what some recent philsophers and child psychologists opine was not adamant on pre experience or post experience as an explanation of how we learn, he was adamant on the express need to continually question how we learn. The reasoning is really quite simple. Anyone can postulate and based on criteria can in some stages of human political existence go unchallenged. That abomination of freedom would put Dewey on the war path.