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In education, as in dress, the ornamental has come before the useful

Drawn from what Herbert Spencer said

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education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

What Herbert Spencer actually said

  1. Herbert Spencer English philosopher and sociologist (1820 to 1903)
    Among mental as among bodily acquisitions, the ornamental comes before the useful. Not only in times past, but almost as much in our own era, that knowledge which conduces to personal well-being has been postponed to that which brings applause.

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