Officers, students, even a few pages, became teachers; and such excellent methods were worked out that (Russian having a phonetic spelling) we succeeded in teaching a peasant to read in nine or ten lessons.
Kropotkin describes the effective teaching methods used to educate peasants in reading after serfdom was abolished.
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