The Family School is an interstellar accredited charity sponsored and
run by the Family of One for clanless and disenherited yazirians. <br />
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Within yaz society each clan educates its own, thus if the clan has a focus (as seen in the clan article of SFman #8) then it usually produces graduates with that focus- a solid majority will have that focus but not all.<br /><br />
For centuries the clanless and dis-inherited have spiralled down to the
lowest level of society, partly through the lack of access to organized
education. This downward spiral only re-enforced the prevailling
preconceptions of the clans against the clanless.<br />
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Only just recently (since the founding of the UPF) has the Family of One
organized this school as a charity. It creates an opportunity for these
marginalized yazirians to advance and secure better employment. There
is a bit of a stigma on yazirian worlds for attending these schools but
outside of the yazirian worlds they are well recieved and even yazirians
with proper clan affiliations have sent their children to them to
ensure that their children absorb yazirian culture while the parents are
living too distant from their home clans.<br />
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The Family of One has been accused of using the schools as a method of
indoctrination and to be fair the cirriculum is very very pro Fam of 1. <br />
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The Fam of 1 runs a seminary (The Family Seminary) for only its clan
members, Clan Anglan, and this school is very prestigous but only open
to its clan members. While its called a seminary it would not be labelled so on a human world but rather just a university. Classes in theology are not really about theology; "Theology of Management" is really about management.<br />
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A school known as the Brotherhood Religious College began on Hentz to
provide religious training for non Clan Anglan students and this school
has been at the fore front of yazirian theological thought for decades. <br />
Many of its graduates actually see the graduates of the seminary as
being quite liberal and secular and in recent years the Family of One
has expelled the Brotherhood Religious College from Hentz. When this
occured two campuses were set up; one on Yast(Athor) which kept the name
Brotherhood Religious College and the other on Hargut (Guna Garu) which
took the name the Hargut Religious College. The Hargut Religious
College adopted a more concilliatory tone and stance toward The Family
of One while the Brotherhood Religious School on Yast became even more
strident in its criticism. <br />
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Naturally the F o 1 took a dim view and brought pressure to bear on the
Yast school. Eventually it set up the directors of the Hargut school to
be its hatchet yaz and the Yast school was forced to close. Its faculty
and some students simply moved to Gran Quivera (Prengular) and started
new but embraced a revolutionary new theology of the brotherhood of
being-hood claiming a universal brotherhood for sentient beings. The
Brotherhood Religious School is now on the fore front of theological
thought in the whole Frontier, welcoming dralasite philosophers and
osakar theologians to guest lecture and teach. Its not a true ecumenical
movement but rather takes an open approach to other religious beliefs
seeking to find the universal truths that underly them and yazirian
beliefs and welcomes different views without losing sight of where it
came from.<br />
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The Brotherhood Religious School publishes a quarterly theological
journal called Frontier Theology which, due to the openness toward other
religions and philosophies has become THE theological journal of the
Frontier, that any minister, priest or religious lay person has heard
of. Its noted for its scholarly approach to comparitive religion and
theology and almost always includes an article by a guest faculty that
is a non yazirian. The journal is considered contraband for ships
intending to land on Araks.<br /><br />Within the Brotherhood movement there are still those that strike a hard stand against the F o 1 but the majority of the movment is of the more open stripe and considers the fam of 1 as being in the past an not really worth wasting their breathe over. They have fundamental agreement with the more reactionary branch but just don't see the need to pour energy into attacking the Fam of 1.
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