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.
Petr 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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