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Instead of learning the laws of force with plain instruments which a boy of fifteen can easily make, they learn them from mere drawings, in a purely abstract fashion.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin criticizes the abstract teaching of physics laws instead of practical application.
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