Verse:Hmøøh/Talma: Difference between revisions

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Elite boys were first educated in either a "boarding school" which taught a curriculum of rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, fine arts, and science, or a military academy. By age 15 they were expected to enter into university study (or military service) in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. If one failed to pass the entrance exam administered by a university he could not enter specialist training and thus was effectively banished from elite society. Those who passed the "boarding school" curriculum but failed to specialize usually worked as "managers", low-level officials or schoolteachers. One or more requirements could be waived for a child of exceptional ability in one area.

Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists; in fact, the word in [[Tíogall]] for 'courtesan', ''~~mortaħóifá~~'', was historically the female form of the word for 'specialist' in Netagin.

Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists; in fact, the word in [[Tíogall]] for 'courtesan', ''mortaħóifa'', was historically the female form of the word for 'specialist' in Netagin.

The plebs were largely semi-literate but uneducated and were forced to do menial labor and/or live in unsanitary places. Non-elite military-age men were often drafted into wars. Weird misfits (especially if male) within the elite were harshly penalized as well. The social cost of nonconformity was quite severe, and crimes were punished harshly (often by forced labor, torture, castration, or death, in addition to public shaming).

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 Elite boys were first educated in either a "boarding school" which taught a curriculum of rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, fine arts, and science, or a military academy. By age 15 they were expected to enter into university study (or military service) in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. If one failed to pass the entrance exam administered by a university he could not enter specialist training and thus was effectively banished from elite society. Those who passed the "boarding school" curriculum but failed to specialize usually worked as "managers", low-level officials or schoolteachers. One or more requirements could be waived for a child of exceptional ability in one area.
-Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists; in fact, the word in [[Tíogall]] for 'courtesan', ''mortaħóifá'', was historically the female form of the word for 'specialist' in Netagin.
+Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists; in fact, the word in [[Tíogall]] for 'courtesan', ''mortaħóifa'', was historically the female form of the word for 'specialist' in Netagin.
 The plebs were largely semi-literate but uneducated and were forced to do menial labor and/or live in unsanitary places. Non-elite military-age men were often drafted into wars. Weird misfits (especially if male) within the elite were harshly penalized as well. The social cost of nonconformity was quite severe, and crimes were punished harshly (often by forced labor, torture, castration, or death, in addition to public shaming).