All over Mithra, people look for higher education and places of learning to tickle their minds and sharpen their wits. They do this in Academies. Academies have existed for a long time, first under the Malen and later adapted by the other species of Mithra. Still, a big difference remains between Malen academies and for example human academies.
Human Academies
Humans usually attend an academy after their mandatory education. When they are a bit older, maybe around their teens or early twenties, they will go and study something that they might use later in life. Because of this, they follow what they call
DEGREES. In modern times these are a collection of very small courses that take a few moons before they complete these. If they complete all the mandatory courses in a degree, they graduate and become a master of whatever they studied. Of course, there are different levels and different standards across borders and cultures, but that is the general idea of it.
Malen Acadmies
For Malen Academies, the story is quite different. Because of their long lifespan, malen don't really study a single subject, trade, or technology like that. They mostly study courses on smaller subjects which they then study a lot of. For example, where a human might study physics and get a job as a researcher, a Malen student might study some light theory physics, some shipbuilding, some fount theory, some painting, and maybe some animal husbandry, before becoming a musician. The courses are a lot bigger than the degrees that humans academies have, but a lot bigger than their individual courses. Of course this also varies across cultures. Where
High-Malen are very much perfectionists and might study a bunch of courses in a similar subject so they can become an expert on it,
Wood-Malen will probably study a lot more variety to become a more generalist.
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