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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9135416" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>Not true. Being a specialist and being educated are not at all the same thing.</p><p></p><p>Lebron James is a specialist in Basketball and did not even attend college. A typical automotive technician at a dealership is likewise a specialist, but is not "highly" educated.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No it absolutley does not. It actually demostrates the exact opposite, that an education is common to the class and "likely" among members of the class, which explicitly means it is not universal.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Suer and they are all "highly educated"!</p><p></p><p>That doesn't make them a specialist at anything</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You are absolutely right a Wizard does effectively need a spellbook, but this has very few thematic implications.</p><p></p><p>A Spellbook does not have a major thematic element to it as requiring a patron does, adherence to an oath does or the requirement to have an education would if there was such a requirement (which there isn't).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Understanding is not the same as education. Those are absolutely different words with very different meanings.</p><p></p><p>Further, that is not how magic works in the fictional world either.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some of them didn't. There were early people who attempted to advance aviation who did not advance it at all. Further many of the people who succeeded were not in fact educated. </p><p></p><p>I am glad you brought up aviation. The greatest pioneers in Aviation were undoubtedly the Wright brothers, inventing not only the airplane, but also the wind tunnel that continbues to be used in airrcraft design today.</p><p></p><p>Neither Orville or Wilbur Wright went to college, they were not "highly educated" yet they were "specialists" in aerodynamics, the greatest of their time in fact and two of the greatest of all time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No as you illustrated with the aviation example, saying Wiards made these unidentified "key advances" is not the same as saying ALL Wizards made advances.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No the Word is actually Wizard.</p><p></p><p>Sorcerers spells do not come from knowledge and study, the rules are clear about that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No you do not have to be, you just have to have knowlege and understanding ..... like the Wright brothers did abotu education without being highly educated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9135416, member: 7030563"] Not true. Being a specialist and being educated are not at all the same thing. Lebron James is a specialist in Basketball and did not even attend college. A typical automotive technician at a dealership is likewise a specialist, but is not "highly" educated. No it absolutley does not. It actually demostrates the exact opposite, that an education is common to the class and "likely" among members of the class, which explicitly means it is not universal. Suer and they are all "highly educated"! That doesn't make them a specialist at anything You are absolutely right a Wizard does effectively need a spellbook, but this has very few thematic implications. A Spellbook does not have a major thematic element to it as requiring a patron does, adherence to an oath does or the requirement to have an education would if there was such a requirement (which there isn't). Understanding is not the same as education. Those are absolutely different words with very different meanings. Further, that is not how magic works in the fictional world either. Some of them didn't. There were early people who attempted to advance aviation who did not advance it at all. Further many of the people who succeeded were not in fact educated. I am glad you brought up aviation. The greatest pioneers in Aviation were undoubtedly the Wright brothers, inventing not only the airplane, but also the wind tunnel that continbues to be used in airrcraft design today. Neither Orville or Wilbur Wright went to college, they were not "highly educated" yet they were "specialists" in aerodynamics, the greatest of their time in fact and two of the greatest of all time. No as you illustrated with the aviation example, saying Wiards made these unidentified "key advances" is not the same as saying ALL Wizards made advances. No the Word is actually Wizard. Sorcerers spells do not come from knowledge and study, the rules are clear about that. No you do not have to be, you just have to have knowlege and understanding ..... like the Wright brothers did abotu education without being highly educated. [/QUOTE]
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