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These lines come from a Victorian comic opera that lampooned university study generally and women’s higher education in particular. A hundred and thirty years later it still points up current distinctions between different types of knowledge and hints at what type of knowledge is more valued. The “Classical” education of the time had little if any technical or scientific tuition, but the author was only mildly satirical realising that “Useful knowledge” was something that the Victorians valued highly.
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Banks, F., Plant, M. (2013). Transferring Knowledge Versus Knowledge Through Technology Education. In: Middleton, H.E., Baartman, L.K.J. (eds) Transfer, Transitions and Transformations of Learning. International Technology Education Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-437-6_3
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