Painters and sculptors went to the Royal Academy, leaving the national Schools of Design to teach the manual arts to mechanics. The belief was that the future was in embracing industrialism. According to John Ruskin, the South Kensington system compounded the problems of the so-called minor arts because it segregated them from the fine arts. (Zukowski, 2006)
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