Education systems in XIV

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Other than that, Eorzea is likely much like real-life medieval Europe and the vast majority of "education" is done through apprenticing at the guild you'll be working at as an adult. Most of the population seems to be illiterate and that's backed up by the signs on all the shops being pictures instead of names. Some adventurers we bump into and even Estinien are from small farming villages that are not even on the map so it can be assumed that not everyone lives in the city either and many people just exist as farmers for generations, without needing to read or anything else.

It’s stated in the Eorzea Encyclopedia that around 50% of Eorzeans are literate, so the the Medieval comparison doesn’t hold completely. It being so high should suggest that schooling of some sort is common, even if it’s just some instruction on numbers and letters. In the 1450s, Germany and Britain had literacy rates between 7% to 16% and it wasn’t until the 18th century that it reached as high as Eorzeas so I think we need to give the continent more credit. They have a unified currency and language, established overland and oversea trade routes that stretch from continent to continent, and a relatively advanced understanding of astronomy and physics. The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution is right around the corner.