So now there are children, does that mean there will be small school houses? I am a 16 year old myself and I would like to see if the children simply go into the school house and sit thee or do they have feelings like being bored so they start sketching or falling sleep while the teacher is teaching.Skyrim seems to be using a new and improved Radiant AI where everyone seems to have a job and life etc etc check GI for more info but does that mean there will be students? In Oblivion and Morrowind I dont recall seeing any school houses other then the Arcane University but that doesnt count I mean like a non-post secondary.

I'm sure Bethesda will improve the AI schedules. So NPCs generally won't just go somewhere to stand around for 5 minutes and leave.

I imagine if there are schoolhouses and the new Radiant Story system is as great as it's cracked up to be, there will probably be a kid or two drooling on his desk. Then again, the teacher would probably stop teaching if you came into the classroom and interrupted the lesson, and that might wake the kid up, so how will you know?

I wonder what they'll teach them though...

I doubt its mathematical logic guys... Lets face it, they'll be training them to be warriors, and they might even be brainwashing them telling them the opposing side are all mad or something

Thats great, if it works out that way

Even if it doesn't having schools on its own is good enough detail.

Niker

I better see them kids choppin' wood and doing chores. Back in my day...

I don't believe there will be any schoolhouses in this feudal society.

Most likely poor children wind up apprenticed to craftsmen and the children of the wealthy are tutored at home by servants.

Let me guess. You had to walk to school in the raging snowstorms uphill both ways?

I'm sure the little kiddies will be doing something. Probably only the ones in town will get any schooling though, and only the ones in the richer households.

How will the children react if you decide to incinerate their teacher once everyone is staring at you?

:flamethrower:

It's not really Feudal, though. And the previous games have shown a great deal of literacy in Tamriel, although given two hundred years of unrest since Oblivion, this may have changed somewhat.

Then the children may decide (according to the radiant AI) to take revenge on you later on in the game

I'd actually like the idea of going into a school and causing ruckus just for the kicks.

Niker

Ooooooooooooooh ya and I want the kids to go to summer formal! And a retreat! And I want the to say DoodZ! And I want them to chew gum! And I want them to pester their parents about learning to ride a horse! And I want them to make Yo Mamma jokes! And I want them them to read MTV Scrolls! And I want them to be be emo!


And and and I want them to..........ya done ranting. :sadvaultboy:

I don't think the Nords value education. If there are children, they will be helping dad work the fields or mom with the housework. In Imperial society, perhaps. Those people are supposed to be raised with some class. Nords are more practical, and an education is wasted when you can just live the simple life, become a warrior, or whatever. Oh, and drown your problems in mead.

Literacy seemed pretty consistent between all racial in previous titles, though.

Nah, I can see Nords in school. But they teach them hard work, too. Instead of paper and pencil, they get wooden block and knife. Carve, children, carve!

I think most people of that time period won't bother sending kids to school, you'll be lucky if your parents bother to home schooled you.

Time period? By which you mean 4E 200? This is a fantasy world, mate. Skyrim may be based on old Scandinavia, but that doesn't mean the people are illiterate. By the time they came to Tamriel from Atmora, which was at the latest in early First Era, but possibly by the end of the Merethic Age, they had an invasion force. That's beyond the Vikings, who were just raiders. So they're already beyond Vikings in 1E 68 (at the latest). Then you realize there's been roughly 5082 years between that and 4E 200. That makes them, at the very least, roughly 3071 years in our future. Even with their equivalent of the Dark Ages (the Second Era), they would still be at about 1933 at least. Yet they're still based on old Scandinavia.

Then south of them, you have your Imperials, who are in Renaissance mode. While there are the fantastical equivalent of vikings bordering them. That's a roughly 300 year anachronism. And relations? Way off what they would be if that situations were even possible in real life. Really, my brain is starting to hurt.

See? Everything is possible in the wonderful world of fantasyland.

I hope Tamriel never reaches the Industrial Revolution...

no in medieval times kids didn't have school. they were either apprenticed by someone or educated by their parents if they were wealthy enough (which wasn't common)
this is actually how it was up until the 1800's so the school thing would kind of be out of place.

Which is BS because we ALL know what race wouldn't be literate. (I'm not talking about any particular race, but it would be interesting to see who thinks what race is dumber. This is just a disclaimer to prevent me from being banhammered)

Anyways... I think it would mainly be homeschooled if anything. The only people we really saw reading were well to do people and mages, people who had the wealth and the free time to learn.

Or seeing kids play games outside. Would bring more reality to the children AI.

It's not medieval Europe, it's early Fourth Era Tamriel. During late Third Era (Morrowind, Oblivion), the majority of the populance was shown to be passably literate. Also, printing press exists, one of the breakthroughs which allowed widespread literacy in real life. So... yeah. Doesn't matter.




whut

If you didn't add that "disclaimer" I wouldn't have suspected any racism anyways. There would be no indication of racism without the disclaimer or "we ALL know what race wouldn't be literate." Sorry if I misunderstood you but if any race wouldn't be literate I would suspect Nord. Remember Thrud from Tribunal? lol

Just because we're in a fantasy universe doesn't mean that the realities of medieval Europe would not also be realistic in the game. A high rate of literacy would only exist in a society where reading and writing had much practical value (like the use we're enjoying right now for example). I don't see Tamriel being nearly advanced enough to have wide spread literacy among the commoners. Nobility? Yes. Mages? Yes. Most merchants, guild/guard leadership? Yes. But those people would only make up 2 or 3% of society. The hundreds of farmers, hunters, street urchins, soldiers, bandits, etc... don't have a need and their society surely doesn't produce the excess utility to waste years of young commoner's most productive work years sitting in desks learning to write essays and do trigonometry to then go work in a field for the next 20 years.

Anyway, my vote would be no schools except perhaps an elite school in one of the capitals where a dozen nobel children are being educated be a private tutor.

Except those realities are not realistic in this game, as it has already been demonstrated in previous titles that the people of Tamriel are, on average, at least passable literate. The prevalence of books and printing presses, the tendency of characters to keep written journals or pass instructions along in written form, the way in which people generally take literacy for granted when communicating to each other are clear indicators that no, this is not medieval Europe; no, we don't need to factor in every aspect of that era and society; yes, the people of Tamriel are literate on a widespread scale.

*SOB*
Did no one read my lengthy post with numbers I took the time to look up and calculate? Because it contained quite a lot of evidence that TES follows no real rules regarding time excepting that it's linear (mostly). Really, that took a long time. I'm sad.

Also:

This. ^