We had an excellent teacher--a very intelligent man with a sarcastic turn of mind, who hated learning from memory, and managed to make us think instead of merely learning facts.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “We had an excellent teacher--a very intelligent man with a sarcastic turn of mind, who hated learning from memory, and…”
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He praises a teacher who encouraged critical thinking over rote memorization, highlighting effective teaching methods.
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The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
And at the same time we learn that immense quantities of land go every year out of culture, to be transformed into game reserves for rich Englishmen and foreigners.
The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
Any soil, of any desired composition, can be made by machinery.

