[quote=TheSovereignGrave]
I don't mean to sound rude but I'm noticing that there's quite a few nations that have some sort of widespread education system. Did that ever happen in the ancient world? I mean, I don't expect everything to be just like it was on Earth but isn't the idea of educating anyone aside from nobles and priests relatively new?
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Well, I know this involves me, only thing I can say is that the educational system, while present, is mainly a mean of indoctrination and insure as much cultural homogeneity in the realm, as I stated, it's only basic calculus, writing and reading, plus most will not even succeed in retaining most of this since there is no measure to help those that can't follow the pace. Only 1/50 maybe retains most of this and 1/100 are good enough to be part of the ruling elite (Which serves anything from warrior, administrator, judge and tax collectors).

So the idea isn't really to educate people more than it is to separate the wheat from the shaft & keep social unity.