You know.... This could be a good way for the fen in general to get education knocked out in a big hurry.
No, really. All the more intellectual pursuits: the sciences, mathematics, literature, politics, economics, history... all that can be filed away using skillsofts. Art would be a bit trickier. Sure, you'll learn techniques sure enough, but actually making art... well, that's all on you. Languages - trickier. You can learn all the grammar and vocabulary you like, and even have knowledge of the phonetics... but actually learning to make those sounds is gonna be an experience. The phonetics portion will give you a good primer, but you'll still have to develop the muscle memory of making those sounds.
With skillsofts, you can have fen-kinder with double- or even triple-doctorates at the age of six. (The younger, the better - their minds are just so incredibly malleable!) This means you can devote the later years to building up the physical side. Skillsofts can be applied here as well, but the effectiveness is limited, much in the same way languages are. You will come to understand the techniques immediately. But you will still have to build up your body to match it, and it is still probably going to take an instructor to help guide you along.
With this... the Fen would potentially become a force to be reckoned with. At the age of twenty, every fen is a genius in a field that they are absolutely happy in, and probably a 3rd or 4th degree blackbelt in several martial art forms. And that's just the normal, non-biomodded humans.
We'd better be careful with this or else it could get completely ridiculous... Or is that the direction we do want to go? ;D
No, really. All the more intellectual pursuits: the sciences, mathematics, literature, politics, economics, history... all that can be filed away using skillsofts. Art would be a bit trickier. Sure, you'll learn techniques sure enough, but actually making art... well, that's all on you. Languages - trickier. You can learn all the grammar and vocabulary you like, and even have knowledge of the phonetics... but actually learning to make those sounds is gonna be an experience. The phonetics portion will give you a good primer, but you'll still have to develop the muscle memory of making those sounds.
With skillsofts, you can have fen-kinder with double- or even triple-doctorates at the age of six. (The younger, the better - their minds are just so incredibly malleable!) This means you can devote the later years to building up the physical side. Skillsofts can be applied here as well, but the effectiveness is limited, much in the same way languages are. You will come to understand the techniques immediately. But you will still have to build up your body to match it, and it is still probably going to take an instructor to help guide you along.
With this... the Fen would potentially become a force to be reckoned with. At the age of twenty, every fen is a genius in a field that they are absolutely happy in, and probably a 3rd or 4th degree blackbelt in several martial art forms. And that's just the normal, non-biomodded humans.
We'd better be careful with this or else it could get completely ridiculous... Or is that the direction we do want to go? ;D