apperceptive

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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 Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

The absolute necessity for fixing apperceptive centres of emotion and thought in the lives of children by experience is shown in the case of Neville Landless in Edwin Drood.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

Now the "apperceptive basis" of material furnished by teacher and text-book should be found, as far as possible, in what the learner has derived from more direct forms of his own experience.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

Active attitude and the concept, 128 Analysis, 111-115, 152 f.; in education, 112 Apperception, 199; apperceptive masses, 203 Application, 129 f.,

From How We Think by Dewey, John