Avi K: As I said before there are different approaches to the words of the Mishna,but you will find throughout shas that there is nothing greater than Torah. Since you brought up derech ertz kadma l’Torah,there is an idea that we go by the way of creation first one starts with worldly affairs and moves on to spiritual.First man was created and then his nefesh ,so too here first derech eretz than Torah.
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