The only safeguard against this sort of misconceiving is to insist on varied statement, and to bring the child's conceptions, wherever it be possible, to some sort of practical test.
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Talks to Teachers on Psychology; and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals (1899), XIII. THE ACQUISITION OF IDEAS. Written in English. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16287/16287-h/16287-h.htm
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