Therefore, nine boys out of ten, if asked to prove an elementary theorem two years after having left the school, will be unable to do it, unless mathematics is their speciality.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Therefore, nine boys out of ten, if asked to prove an elementary theorem two years after having left the school, will be…”
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He asserts that most students forget how to prove basic theorems after leaving school, highlighting a failure in education.
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