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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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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.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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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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