Apprentice
“Ton ëcim o ha-keĺe to ańaśiḿ wa śvẹ ka, ha-keĺe o ton ëcim to ańaśiḿ wa śvẹ ka, zën ańaśiḿ o ëc oqhi keĺe ġha sa jyạośvẹ ka.”
The preferred educational method in Amity City, due in no small part to the large kinesthetic learner population.
Qualifications
Entry-level, no prior experience required.
Requirements
Besides being at least ten years of age, simply a desire to learn and willingness to watch, listen, assist, and be assisted.
Appointment
Generally, a child asks their parent(s) to approach a Master about becoming their pupil, and once an agreement with the Master in question is reached, they're legally registered as their apprentice at the Palace. Adolescents and adults may approach a Master themselves and go through the same process.
If one desires to be apprentice to someone without the title of Master, the process is much longer, involving interviews with the person's employer(s) and other connections who can vouch for their competency/etc. and additional paperwork that those people need to fill out.
Duties
Simply to respect one's Master.
Responsibilities
Different depending on what field one is learning to go into and what one's Master requires of one.
Benefits
Education and a small amount of pay.
Accoutrements & Equipment
Different depending on what field one is learning to go into.
Grounds for Removal/Dismissal
Willful disobedience of one's Master that puts oneself or others in danger is considered grounds for revocation; with what degree of immediacy depends on the seriousness/severity of the offense.
Cultural Significance
Choosing who one is going to be apprentice to is a huge deal— people are very aware in the Sensorium universe that, whether you yourself are a jiapath (anglicization of Amitian Creole ⟨jyǎṕäs⟩ /ʥjɑ̤.pʲæᵴ̪/ “autistic person”) or not, you'll almost definitely wind up asking one since they're the most likely to become specialists with highly extensive knowledge in their chosen field, and information sharing is likely to be very important to them as not only a source of and outlet for joy, but also as a most-natural bonding method. This can make the decision very easy if one already has someone in mind who one knows one would love to learn from or very hard if one has multiple who one is already close with and doesn't want to hurt the feelings of; it's not at all uncommon for a Master and apprentice and/or apprentices who studied under the same Master to wind up becoming haṙjjyǎ /ˈhɑɹȡ̚.ʥjɑ̤/ in Amity City.
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Author's Notes
The Master-Apprentice system in Sensorium is based on how things worked in the real world before the invention of public schools during the Industrial Revolution, when it was basically decided that we needed factories to put the general populace's children's brains into that would churn out cookie-cutter (not to mention neurotypical, which usually works out some flavor of “horribly” for any neurodivergent kid) factory worker brains.