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Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time…”
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He argues that not only is much of what is taught irrelevant, but the teaching methods also lead to unnecessary time expenditure.
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