apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
Bleak House discusses the contents of children’s minds and the need of early experiences to form apperceptive centres of feeling and thought in a comprehensive and suggestive manner.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The apperceptive power of the pupil's mind takes the new material of thought and feeling contained in the selection and weaves it into the web of his previous ideas and emotions.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Dickens emphasized the fact that the lack of apperceptive centres of an improper kind is a great advantage.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
