Our present methods of teaching originate from a time when the accomplishments required from an educated person were extremely limited; and they have been maintained, notwithstanding the immense increase of knowledge which must be conveyed to the scholar’s mind since science has so much widened its former limits.
Kropotkin highlights the outdated nature of current teaching methods that do not reflect the vast increase in knowledge over time.
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