Ideally then, a school system should be one in which the love of learning, ______the acqui

Ideally then, a school system should be one in which the love of learning, ______the acquisition of facts, is cultivated; one in which the spirit of inquiry is encouraged.

A．or rather

B．rather

C．rather than

D．less than

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