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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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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!
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin laments that the educational system remains stuck in outdated medieval practices, hindering real learning.

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