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CHAPTER VI.
APPERCEPTION.
We have now to deal with a principle of pedagogy upon which all the
leading ideas thus far discussed largely depend for their realization.
Interest, concentration, and induction set up requirements relative to
the matter, spirit and method of school studies. Apperception is a
practical principle, obedience to which will contribute daily and
hourly to making real in school exercises the ideas of interest,
concentration and induction.
We observe in passing that the important principles already discussed
stand in close mutual relation and dependence. Interest aids
concentration by bringing all kinds of knowledge into close touch with
the feelings. Interest puts incentives into every kind of information
so as to arouse the will, which, in turn, unifies and controls the
mental actions. But concentration has a reflex influence upon
interest, because unity and conscious mastery give added pleasure to
knowledge. The culture epochs are expected to contribute powerfully to
both concentration and interest; to the former by supplying a series of
rallying-points for educative effort, to the latter by furnishing
matter suited to interest children.
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