If waste of time is characteristic of our methods of teaching science, it is characteristic as well of the methods used for teaching handicraft.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “If waste of time is characteristic of our methods of teaching science, it is characteristic as well of the methods used…”
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Kropotkin asserts that inefficiency in teaching methods extends to both science and handicraft education.
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