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Post by ladyt on Aug 10, 2009 5:13:54 GMT -5
So it's been a couple years since I've read these books....and I can't quite remember whether a 'public' school was set up in Valdemar or what...or who went. I seem to remember that there was, but then again that could have been another series. So instead of looking through the books to find out (I'm being lazy), I'll ask here. I'm curious cuz I've got a character I'm making whose parents own a tavern in Haven. How much of an education would she have had?
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Post by cressme1 on Aug 10, 2009 5:19:00 GMT -5
I'm not a mod, or anything, but if I recall, the children in large cities (like Haven) would be schooled at a temple until they had basic reading, math, and writing. I'm not sure how far they went with it.
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Post by carla on Aug 10, 2009 13:01:01 GMT -5
Every child in Valdemar had to get schooling from about age five, I think, until they could read, write legibly, and do basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division up to two digits I think was the minimum at which they could stop school). I believe King Randale decreed that at the beginning of his reign, but it may have been someone else. Something about the population being less prone to panic and confusion if they could read posted proclamations.
Schooling could be had for free, including free breakfast (paid for by the crown), at any temple, and ran from breakfast to noon daily. (Whether that meant weekdays, every day except festival and market days, or what was not really clear, and might even have varied from temple to temple). Most priests would be happy to continue teaching a bright student past that point, if their parents allowed it, and the absolute brightest students could be sent to Haven to become scholarship blues.
Parents also had the option of teaching their kids themselves, or hiring a private tutor. I believe big cities, certainly Haven, also had what were basically private schools, which taught the required basics plus some history, science, and other subjects.
To Catch a Thief had a description of schooling at a temple, and Brightly Burning had a description of a private school in Haven.
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Post by shappiresun on Aug 10, 2009 13:05:48 GMT -5
It was King Randale that set it up, because of when his grandmother died. Vanyel's father was up in arms about it. It was Salenay that started the free breakfast so that every child had at lest one good meal and it encuraged the parents of the poor to send their kids in the morning to school.
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Post by ladyt on Aug 10, 2009 13:09:28 GMT -5
Right! I knew I remembered something about breakfasts too. Excellent, thanks.
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Post by Bri on Aug 10, 2009 20:13:52 GMT -5
And I will add only that Carla and shapphire are correct and these are this is still same way schooling is run in our timeline. The only real difference being that with 100 more years of it going it's much harder for children to duck out of classes, or parents to get away with not letting them go etc etc.
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