Education in Brevoy

Basic education is taught in the home, from regular child-rearing to an apprenticeship designed to set the child up with the skills to work a professional trade. Groups of children are usually taught wisdom and tradition, as well as basic literacy, math, and practical life skills by community elders, typically in an open-air pavilion or at a site applicable for the lesson ("today we go into the woods and learn how to skin and clean a deer"). Boys and girls study together, and it's expected that all able-bodied members of a community be trained in basic combat arts for defense of self and their neighbors. Play and independent outdoor recreation are considered crucial aspects of childhood learning, with groups of children roaming through fields, creeks, and the edges of forests, coming up with their own games, before hurrying back to be home before dark.

Literacy is held in high regard by all strata of Brevic society, and even the lowliest peasant takes pride in reading, especially traditional Brevic classics and history. In settlements too small to support libraries, there is usually an active network of book-trading between neighbors.

Specialized education can be sought by those who can afford it, but only the major cities have anything approaching academies or universities.

Education in the basic tenets of one's church is gained over a lifetime of attendance, but those wishing to enter the ranks of the clergy petition a priest or priestess for apprenticeship, and then are ordained by a higher-ranked member of the order.