[ It all sounds very resource-intensive. In a small village, you might manage the attitude of unity necessary. But a small village is the least likely to afford its children from the fields, save in winter. The logistics of it would be a nightmare particularly if kept to large, central towers. All the travel, back and forth... or else, distributed, and neither enough books or scholars to go around.
(That there are too few scholars in the world remains a subject of hot debate among anyone who isn't one.)
Alan knows he wouldn't have been taught beyond his mother's book of letters, or the Fathers' recitations, if his learning hadn't been so specialized, the potential of service to the community so great. There's a little kernel of warmth around that idea, insulating and at once distinctly uncomfortable. That learning, it's what he has left. The idea that it might never have been his, ]
You should try it. [ A beat. ] In the Skyhold, it's small enough to try. You're a Warden, people will listen to you.
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(That there are too few scholars in the world remains a subject of hot debate among anyone who isn't one.)
Alan knows he wouldn't have been taught beyond his mother's book of letters, or the Fathers' recitations, if his learning hadn't been so specialized, the potential of service to the community so great. There's a little kernel of warmth around that idea, insulating and at once distinctly uncomfortable. That learning, it's what he has left. The idea that it might never have been his, ]
You should try it. [ A beat. ] In the Skyhold, it's small enough to try. You're a Warden, people will listen to you.