apperceive

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Good instruction, then, involves first putting the child into a proper frame of mind to apperceive the new knowledge, and hence this becomes a corner-stone of all good teaching method.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

They stated the view with a rash emphasis, until one is forced to ask whether a mind which is originally nothing at all, can absorb, or as psychologists say, "apperceive" anything whatever.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

One may perceive a new object without understanding it, but to apperceive it is to interpret its meaning by the aid of similar familiar notions.

From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander

By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

When they were come, they instantly ran over the things that were in my memory, but, owing to their promptness, I was unable to apperceive what they observed.

From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Swedenborg, Emanuel