International (was:American) Schools

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: International (was:American) Schools
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5922] Re: American Schools
Date: 8/6/00 1:06 pm  (ET)

><<Yes, the oldest schools of magic would be in Egypt, China, and
Japan. >> What about one in Sumar, Babylonia, or Assyria (what is
now Iraq)?

A very good point. (Altho' I am not convinced that the Sumerian wizarding
school of magic started earlier than the Egyptian wizarding school.)

Even nowdays, the wizard folk are gradually influenced by their Muggle
environment (old Archie speaks ENGLISH not Anglo-Saxon or something)
and one imagines that in the past, they were more involved in the Muggle
world, holding important jobs like Court Wizard and Local Healer, so they
were even more affected by their Muggles. So Sumerian language became
a dead language for wizard folk, used only for written texts, at the
same time that it did for Muggles, and the Sumerian school's successor
Babylonian/Akkadian school was in turn replaced by an Aramaic school.

And I suppose that the Aramaic school for many centuries has had most
students are Muslims, second most Christians, some Samaritans, Jews,
maybe Druze ... but no leftover Sumerians, Babylonians nor even Imperial
Romans. It might even have changed its language of instruction to Arabic!

Thus, the Aramaic school and the Egyptian school would be intensely
similar (the Egyptian school had Coptic for its language of instruction
of at one time and perhaps still does).