Education ♦ represents the amount of formal education you have had. It is a basic measure of overall well-rounded "book learning", and is the closest thing in Castle Falkenstein to an Intelligence stat. It represents how well you can comprehend the latest Science! as well as determines how many languages you can speak (and how fluently you can speak them).
In the Layflat Castle Falkenstein campaign, the Natural Sciences ability is rolled into Education.
- Poor Education assumes you have no education: You cannot read, write or do sums. The facts most people know by rote escape you; you know only things that immediately happen to you or others tell you. The only language you know is your native tongue (which you speak poorly), and all other languages must be gained via Special Abilities.
- Average Education assumes you have a standard primary school education: You can read, write, do sums, and know some basic history, geography and science. You speak your native tongue well, and know a little of one other language (which you speak with an atrocious accent).
- Good Education assumes you have gone to one of the better schools: a prep school or boarding school. You can not only read and write, but have read the Classics, can do simple calculus and other higher math, and have some knowledge of History, Philosophy, Logic, and current Science. You speak not only your native tongue, but also Latin and at least two other languages well (choose at start and write in your History).
- Great Education is equivalent to a University Degree. You can do all types of higher math, can quote the Classics from memory, and know a bit of History, Philosophy, Logic, Physics, and Chemistry. You speak your native tongue, Latin, some Ancient Greek, and at least three other languages.
- Exceptional Education is equivalent to an advanced University Degree, a Doctorate or higher. Not only can you easily use higher math, but you know a lot of History, Philosophy, Logic, Physics, and Chemistry, as well as being familiar with all of the most fashionable theories and scientific discoveries. You have probably published at least a couple books, and fluently speak all major Europan languages (assuming you are from New Europa) without an accent.
- Extraordinary Education assumes you are one of the smartest people alive; you know almost all subjects, and can speak all but the most obscure languages fluently (even these you can at least make yourself understood in). You have probably written several mathematical proofs and maybe made some of the major scientific discoveries of the age.
Reference: Castle Falkenstein Core Book p160