State Academy (ROTS)

State Academy (ROTS)
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Chain	Academy Type
Requires	-
Enables	-
Spawned Defence Forces	-
Basic Building Statistics	Cost: 3600 Improves the rate at which arts are mastered: +20%
Clan Effects	-
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Description

Ignorance is a belly hungry for wisdom.

The state academy allows the training of many scholars and Imperial bureaucrats. While this is a worthy thing in itself, it is not the whole story. The masters and students also add significantly to the cultural and intellectual attainments of the whole country. Philosophy, the arts, and more practical thinking can flourish here. Confucianism sees all education as a good thing for all people, and this idea was adopted by the Japanese. Indeed, from an early point in Japanese history a samurai was expected to be a Confucian "gentleman" as well as a warrior: the idea of "pen and sword in accord" was not just a pretty, poetical metaphor. It was meant to be exactly what it said. A samurai should be able to express his thoughts with a calligraphy brush as readily as he could dismember an opponent with his sword. A clear head and a steady hand were useful in peace and war, at home and on the battlefield. The great families of the Gempei War certainly valued educated cunning as much as swordmanship as they manoeuvred for power at the Imperial Court.