American Schools

[jferer]

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From: jferer
Subject: Re: American Schools
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5908] Re: American Schools
Date: 8/5/00 11:12 pm  (ET)

Certainly there were many wizards in these cultures, but they may not
have had schools. Magical children may have been turned over to the
priests/shamans/"medicine men" as apprentices. This would have happened
in North America and sub-Saharan Africa pre-colonialization.

the first African school in America was probably in one of the Gullah
communities, which I always thought were heavily magical. Some of the
magical people, especially those who were born here, would have stayed
on to identify and save all the other magical children that were born
and to help the rest as much as their power allowed. The Underground
Railroad probably had magical protection.

Yes, the oldest schools of magic would be in Egypt, China, and Japan.