Education systems in XIV

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I think the state of education and society's survival demands are often linked. For example, following the Fourth Umbral Calamity (of Earth), there was a dark age of sorts in which people were generally distrustful of knowledge and technology on account of the fall of Allag. This persisted until the Fifth Umbral Calamity (of Ice) forced society to develop magic again in order to fend off the cold and have a means of growing crops in the harsh environment. After the War of the Magi and the Sixth Umbral Calamity (of Water), there was yet another dark age in which magic was forbidden, libraries were burnt, and spellcasters were hunted down. So this very much seems to have been a cyclical thing simply because people didn't fully who was at the root of these Calamities.