The masses want to know: they are willing to learn; they can learn.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The masses want to know: they are willing to learn; they can learn.”
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Kropotkin asserts the eagerness of the masses to learn and grow, highlighting their potential for knowledge acquisition.
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He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.

