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German teachers have shown how the very plays of children can be made instrumental in conveying to the childish mind some concrete knowledge in both geometry and mathematics.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “German teachers have shown how the very plays of children can be made instrumental in conveying to the childish mind…”
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He praises German teachers for creatively using children's play to teach complex subjects like geometry and mathematics.
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