I RP a character who is a private tutor. Lately I am starting to flesh that out complete with the implications of it from a lore and setting point-of-view.Â
I have been trying to find lore information on what education in Eorzea is like. Because of the lack of schoolhouses I am under the impression that education is largely vocational (i.e. handled by the trade guilds) and that there is no public education system in any of the city-states. I also infer this from the apparently low level of literacy as well as the game's setting being in a kind of quasi-medieval-Europe.Â
But because of the amount of books, scholars and so forth, there obviously needs to be some form of organized education. So where are all the schools? Is there maybe something like English governesses, i.e. people hired by the wealthy to provide a combination of caretaking and education for young children inside of their homes?
One thing I was wondering is whether we can infer that the Ossuary in Ul'dah does a lot of public education. It seems that they are a public authority in and of themselves and responsible for many of the laws there, as well as being probably the largest "library" that you can find. But when you walk in you don't see students of things not related to thaumaturgy, at least not among the NPCs.
Something else to keep in mind is that historically speaking, religious institutions used to provide a lot of free public education, so by analogy you might wonder whether any of the religious institutions of Eorzea have charitable education programs for the public.
Then again, a big problem with this is that you pretty much never see children anywhere in Eorzea, let alone a schoolhouse containing children. Maybe there's an off-continent boarding school that literally every child in Eorzea gets sent to until they reach physical maturity.
Anyways, food for thought, but I'm wondering if anyone else has explored this. It seemed like a pretty major thing when I was writing my own character's backstory, but there doesn't seem to be a lot to go on.
I have been trying to find lore information on what education in Eorzea is like. Because of the lack of schoolhouses I am under the impression that education is largely vocational (i.e. handled by the trade guilds) and that there is no public education system in any of the city-states. I also infer this from the apparently low level of literacy as well as the game's setting being in a kind of quasi-medieval-Europe.Â
But because of the amount of books, scholars and so forth, there obviously needs to be some form of organized education. So where are all the schools? Is there maybe something like English governesses, i.e. people hired by the wealthy to provide a combination of caretaking and education for young children inside of their homes?
One thing I was wondering is whether we can infer that the Ossuary in Ul'dah does a lot of public education. It seems that they are a public authority in and of themselves and responsible for many of the laws there, as well as being probably the largest "library" that you can find. But when you walk in you don't see students of things not related to thaumaturgy, at least not among the NPCs.
Something else to keep in mind is that historically speaking, religious institutions used to provide a lot of free public education, so by analogy you might wonder whether any of the religious institutions of Eorzea have charitable education programs for the public.
Then again, a big problem with this is that you pretty much never see children anywhere in Eorzea, let alone a schoolhouse containing children. Maybe there's an off-continent boarding school that literally every child in Eorzea gets sent to until they reach physical maturity.
Anyways, food for thought, but I'm wondering if anyone else has explored this. It seemed like a pretty major thing when I was writing my own character's backstory, but there doesn't seem to be a lot to go on.
