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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “What the peasant does not understand is abstract notions when they are not illustrated by concrete examples.”

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What the peasant does not understand is abstract notions when they are not illustrated by concrete examples.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the need for concrete examples to explain abstract concepts to peasants.

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