The phrase "and master rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing two options, emphasizing a preference for one over the other.
Example: "I would prefer to learn the basics and master rather than just skim through the material."
Alternatives: "and excel instead of" or "and dominate rather than".
Yet, by imputing continued colonial aspirations to Britain, Mr. Mugabe has been able to harness Africa's deep-rooted resentment of foreign dominance, casting his political survival as part of the elemental contest between slave and master, rather than as one more skirmish in the war of democracy versus tyranny portrayed by his enemies.
On some guitar amps, the knobs will be labeled "Drive" and "Master" rather than "Pre" and "Post".
By refusing to let ITV consolidate other than very slowly, regulators condemned the ITV companies to spend more time fighting each other – the old game at which Allan (not to mention Steve Morrison of Granada, Greg Dyke and even John Birt of LWT) was a master – rather than focusing on the threats and opportunities of the emerging digital world.
It was indeed scientific information and empirical knowledge I was to master rather than the more phenomenological information of how we, as humans, live our lives.
This doesn't mean Churchill's play is some attack on technology: she is saying that we have to be its master rather than its slave and learn how to how to live with the cascade of fact and opinion.
Alabama's secretary of state, however, preferred the appointment of a special master rather than agree to compliance by the federal elections in 2008.
There are works here that look too much like an undigested homage to the Cuban master, rather than a new development.
Even as critics saluted "The Force Awakens" and fans turned it into a billion-dollar hit, both camps have come scurrying to the feet of Lucas, the master, rather than Abrams, the apprentice.
Raised in the Long Tomorrows orphanage in Chongjin, North Korea, his protagonist believes himself to be the son of the Orphan Master rather than some kid dropped off by his desperate parents.
In the Australia Card revolt, citizens protested against "this drastic change to our way of life", about a proposal "totalitarian in concept", about an instrument for making the state "our master, rather than our servant".
The use of the Italian language, difficult to master, rather than the local dialect they grew up speaking, showed that those recipes - many were for desserts - were special and not meant to appear on the everyday table.
