The practice or study of selecting and organizing useful educational materials; the discipline of creating learning collections.
Noun form derived from 'chrestomathic,' treating the educational practice as a systematic field of study.
Before the internet, librarians were 'chrestomathics' experts—they decided what excerpts, essays, and quotes were essential enough to preserve in collections for students to learn from.
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