Education in Urcea
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Education in Urcea is provided in public school, private school, and home schools, and is divided into K-12 education and higher education. Urcean public education is operated jointly by provincial and local governments alongside the Church and is regulated by the Collegium Scientificum, which is both a university system and the nation's public education department. Education in Urcea is traditionally based on the principles of classical education and primary and secondary education are primarily focused on teaching the seven traditional liberal arts.
According to the Collegium Scientificum, the purpose of education in Urcea is "to mold students into more complete people and able citizen-subjects" by "freeing (them) from their basest desires and creating them as individuals capable of self-rule in the most direct sense". Consequently, the Collegium Scientificum argues that the outcome of education is to create a population "free to pursue the intellectual and religious pursuits of their longing in addition to being capable in their duties to state in life" and to create a population "capable of self-governance by means of self-rule" and "self-moderation".
K-12 education
In Urcea, K-12 education is divided into two sections, called "sextets" for grade groupings. Structurally, each sextet is responsible for conferring different subjects but also includes catechetical education classes at each grade level. In Urcean public schools, catechetical classes are included in every grade level. Though a vast majority of Urceans are members of the Levantine Catholic Church, all students - Catholic are not - are expected to take Catechesis classes, although non-Catholic students are "graded only on their understanding of the underlying philosophical concepts" according to the Collegium Scientificum.
First Sextet
The "First Sextet", a period of education which can be roughly equated with "primary education" in other countries, is the first six grade levels (and kindergarten), focused primarily on teaching the trivium - grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The First Sextet includes the years K-6.
Second Sextet
The "Second Sextet", a period of education which can be roughly equated with "secondary education" in other countries, is the second six grade levels, focused primarily on teaching the quadrivium - arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. The Second Sextet includes the years 7-12.