But all this longing of the children and youths for real work is wasted simply because our idea of the school is still the mediæval scholasticism, the mediæval monastery!
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But all this longing of the children and youths for real work is wasted simply because our idea of the school is still…”
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Kropotkin laments that the educational system remains stuck in outdated medieval practices, hindering real learning.
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