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[thebestnose]

I'm starting to notice an imbalance when it comes to education. Not that I feel there was a lack in my own- after all, what more can they teach you when they don't know anything themselves- but that there is an emphasis on education in other places that there isn't where I am

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[counturfingers]

I didn't have much use for school. All they did was try to make everyone the same, and only the Alphas got much out of it. A few Betas got to be tech assistants.

[thebestnose]

That was my world. Only, you had to be the same within your Colour.

[counturfingers]

With us it wasn't color. It was... well, class. Alphas and Betas got the best jobs. Deltas like me were manual laborers at best.

[thebestnose]

Colours are a class.

[thebestnose]

What did you have?

[thebestnose]

Good.

I think it should be like that.

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[breakmychest]

School. Mostly it's for filling up little minds with all the knowledge and skills they need to be proper little automatons that'll do what they're told and not think too much or make trouble when they get older.

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[thebestnose]

Basically, yes.

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[breakmychest]

Good to see someone else gets it.

[notiaraincluded]

There's definitely plenty of choices for education beyond high school, though options are definitely limited depending on your income.

[thebestnose]

Income? Why would that matter?

[notiaraincluded]

Because you have to pay to go to college. You have tuition, which is the bulk of it. Then you have to pay for the books, various fees. It can get pretty pricey, especially when you start talking about private universities.

[thebestnose]

Private universities?

[timesbureaucrat]

Some Gallifreyans study at the Academy for approximately a century, starting at the age of eight. Completion of education at the Academy is a requirement for flying a TARDIS and earning the title of Time Lord. People without proper training in temporal mechanics have no business messing about in the Time Vortex.

The Academy has both lectures and tutors and most of the time they are carefully selected from pillars of the intellectual community. [He wants to stand behind any Gallifreyan institution fully and without introducing any uncertainty...but even he has to admit that sometimes the Academy has had some dud teachers.]

[thebestnose]

A century. How long do your people live?

[timesbureaucrat]

Barring mishaps, around ten thousand years or so.

[His voice is very carefully measured when he says that. Reciting a fact, no emotion behind it. He's still dealing with the fact that his regenerations were stolen and instead of probably lifespan of another 9,000 years, he's got a few decades. He tries not to think about it.]

[thebestnose]

So I suppose a century isn't long to you. [Mind. Blown.]