 November 6, 2014 - 12:11am | I've been pondering how the general education of beings is done in the Frontier for zero level beings. I'm thinking about the equivelent of Earth High School / Secondary education, not college or university or suplemental trade schools. Dralasites: Dralasites get language training and early primary/elementary school education from their parent while budding. This is enough to allow them to take care of them selves in a world of adults which allows them to wander about for a few weeks after budding as they satisfy their curiosity and freedom from their parent. The adults give them food and shelter and advise them to pick a stoa to join. Stoas watch out for wandering buds and recruit them. A couple of months is about the extreem that dralasite society will tollerate of a wandering bud who has not found itself a home in a stoa. The Stoa then educates the dralasite throughout childhood and adolesence until it is mature enough to choose a career. This is the time that dralasites will then join another stoa that specializes in the career they desire. If the career requires university education then the stoa traditionally functions as the equivelent of the university. If the career does not require much additional education then the career stoa will function more as a fraternity where basic training is shared and tips and tricks are shared. Mostly this stoa provides comradere. Vrusk: Parents birth their young at the corporate nursery and the larvae are raised and educated in the nursery to a jounior high school level. After they pupate for the first time they are streemed into a corporate academy based primarily on their aptitute. Some allowance is made for the young vrusks interests but mostly the results of testing cause the placement of an individual. Young vrusk are often traded between corporate academies as each corporation specializes their academies to meet the needs for future employees needed in the company. Thus a large civil engineering corporation will trade young vrusks in its academy that do not test well to become construction workers and civil engineers to other corporations they have contracts with for their young vrusks who do test well to become construction workers or civil engineers. The corporations strive to have a wide network of corporate aliances in other trades who would seek their young vrusk that need to be traded to corporations that best match their tested aptitudes. Vrusk that finish this system are minimally educated to a high school level for trades or placed into internship education that results in the equivelent of a university degree. Vrusk are expected to pay the companies back for their education. This is commonly refered to as their nursery debt. For most this is not a burden as they stay with their company for life and it is taken out of their pay resulting in "paying off your nursery debt" bing just a bump in salery later in life. Most vrusk companies take pride in their employees being able to pay their nursery debts off sooner than other corporations. This is a vrusk measure of how healthy the company is. Yazirians: Yazirians are educated by the clan schools through high school equivelent. Yazirians are encouraged to succeed in education and seek advanced learning from honored elders. Strong clans individually sponser schools of honored elders which yazirian young adults compete to gain enrollment in. Many clans band together to sponser a common school of honored elders for their young adults to compete for membership in. The poorest clans just have their young adults compete for membership in clan schools with whom their clan has aceptance. There is a great degree of clan politics involved in which clans may be educated by which clans. Humans: The humans education system functions much like our Earth systems. The education systems are often government sponsered by the human citizens for children and teenagers. University and specialized trade schools are predominantly paid for by tuition systems. There are also private schools for children through university that have tighter membership policies sometimes involving non-academic membership criteria. Questions and Ponderings: What I would like to explore is how much education does the common being need? Does everone need a degree after highschool? What percentage of beings seek advanced education for a happy life? And mostly at what ages do each race commonly start taking on the roles of adulthood and begin paying their own way? How old are they when they finish their basic compulsary education (high school)? Are there other common expected duties of young adults post compulsary education such as military service or "humanitarian service"? Humans would be easy to make just like us, what about the other races? -iggy |
 November 16, 2014 - 3:04am | I think the needs of the Frontier would dictate a fairly high standard of pre-university education as a general starting point. That said, perhaps once a being reaches a certain age, they have the option of leaving their education to pursue some other course in their life. This means that generally speaking even someone without an advanced education at least knows enough to get a start in life. It's then up to them what they do with that. The general level of technological advance would dictate how much an individual would need to know. I imagine that this might apply to around 40% of the population. A further 20% are educated enough to work in more advanced roles that do not require a university education (i.e. technicians at a starport). Another 30% have the university education, and 10% have a very advanced level of education that goes beyond the university stage. |
 November 16, 2014 - 11:27am | I think Vocational Training might be a very big box in the UPF... I mean most people we put into space have a degree, but would that be the case if space travel was the norm... even my job once required an Associate Degree, you had to go to college to learn it as it was considered to be technical at one point (I was surprised to hear that) and to difficult for just anyone to do but after changes in some laws that stopped, now everyone thinks we are all morons who do the job (unless they are trained to do it, then the dumb jokes stop & apologies start)... go figure. So I imagine if a job is a common job for the setting on a whole it would be vocational or lower degree job in that setting... certain jobs would remain higher degree specialties. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
