We fully recognise the necessity of specialisation of knowledge, but we maintain that specialisation must follow general education, and that general education must be given in science and handicraft alike.
Kropotkin emphasizes the importance of general education as a foundation for specialized knowledge.
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At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
Altogether, the worker is much more at the mercy of the dealer or the employer, and the employer is at the mercy of the wholesale dealer.
The falsifications discovered by these laboratories exceed all that could have been imagined.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
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