The pupils lose at that full two years, and when they come later on to problems in mechanics and physics, schoolboys and schoolgirls spend most of their time in endless calculations which only fatigue them and inspire in them a dislike of exact science.
Kropotkin points out the time wasted on calculations in schools, leading to a dislike of science.
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