"No, I had centaur tutors. And Madame Cherie and her husband Chester usually didn't teach anything I wasn't interested in."
Because Ivy was interested in... basically everything ever.
"Although, like I said, it was hard to hide away with Stanley when he got even bigger. If we were out in the orchards, then Madame Cherie could just follow his trail. Smash the ogre said I might have had an eye-queue plant dropped on me, like one was on him, so sometimes he'd take me into the woods and teach me everything there is to know about the wilds! And that's more fun than books, but usually, tutoring sessions were just talking about stuff, like this, and I like that! Don't you?"
She thinks patiently puzzling over this development. To be fair, did non-royal students go to schools maybe? Like fish? A headshake! "Hugo didn't go to school either! But his father's the Magician of Information, so he just learned everything from Magician Humphrey. He's very smart." He wasn't actually, Hugo's kind of an idiot, except around Ivy. But baby Ivy isn't big on doing all the thinking, so she bossed around Hugo to do it for her. That worked somehow. "Oh, and he said Mare Imbri brought him daydreams a lot, so he didn't always pay attention to his Dad, but he definitely knows more than almost ANYONE! Except Magician Humphrey himself, of course."
Ivy puzzles this over. She has, unfortunately, an extremely limited experience with normal children. Point of fact... "Lacuna and Hiatus didn't go to school either, but their father's a Magician too." She thinks hard! "They had centaur tutors too, and they also lived with Magician Humphrey before Hugo was born because that was where the Zombie Master's castle used to be, so they had to make a new one -- but that was easy, because he could have zombies make it." Did zombies go to school? No, they did not.
"Zora the zombie didn't go to school either, not even during her life. She told me lots and lots about her life! And she's not Magician-related, her magic was making people age twice as fast, so she came to the castle to babysit and help Stanley grow up faster, and sometimes Magician Humphrey, since he was too young too at first. So I think schools are only for fish in Xanth." A firm nod. "Yeah. Elves and harpies and goblins don't have schools either. And Jordan and Esk and Threnody and Rapunzel neither." She wavered a hand back and forth. "Jordan's a special case, and Rapunzel was trapped in an ivory tower, and Threnody is half demon, and Esk is half ogre -- he's Smash's son, so it's all a bit... different, but still. No school for any of them. Chex was taught by her dam, Chem, and her Uncle Chet. Cherie was mad that Chex has wings and turned her back on her and Chem, which is really unfair!"
Although she wondered where normal centaurs got their education. From their parents, same as Chex? Presumably so! At least she never heard of formal "schools" on Centaur Isle, though, there was a lot she didn't know about it. She could ask her father of course! But he wasn't there. Maybe Grey. Grey would definitely know, because he grew up in Mundania too, and said he was acting as Humphrey's assistant!
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Because Ivy was interested in... basically everything ever.
"Although, like I said, it was hard to hide away with Stanley when he got even bigger. If we were out in the orchards, then Madame Cherie could just follow his trail. Smash the ogre said I might have had an eye-queue plant dropped on me, like one was on him, so sometimes he'd take me into the woods and teach me everything there is to know about the wilds! And that's more fun than books, but usually, tutoring sessions were just talking about stuff, like this, and I like that! Don't you?"
She thinks patiently puzzling over this development. To be fair, did non-royal students go to schools maybe? Like fish? A headshake! "Hugo didn't go to school either! But his father's the Magician of Information, so he just learned everything from Magician Humphrey. He's very smart." He wasn't actually, Hugo's kind of an idiot, except around Ivy. But baby Ivy isn't big on doing all the thinking, so she bossed around Hugo to do it for her. That worked somehow. "Oh, and he said Mare Imbri brought him daydreams a lot, so he didn't always pay attention to his Dad, but he definitely knows more than almost ANYONE! Except Magician Humphrey himself, of course."
Ivy puzzles this over. She has, unfortunately, an extremely limited experience with normal children. Point of fact... "Lacuna and Hiatus didn't go to school either, but their father's a Magician too." She thinks hard! "They had centaur tutors too, and they also lived with Magician Humphrey before Hugo was born because that was where the Zombie Master's castle used to be, so they had to make a new one -- but that was easy, because he could have zombies make it." Did zombies go to school? No, they did not.
"Zora the zombie didn't go to school either, not even during her life. She told me lots and lots about her life! And she's not Magician-related, her magic was making people age twice as fast, so she came to the castle to babysit and help Stanley grow up faster, and sometimes Magician Humphrey, since he was too young too at first. So I think schools are only for fish in Xanth." A firm nod. "Yeah. Elves and harpies and goblins don't have schools either. And Jordan and Esk and Threnody and Rapunzel neither." She wavered a hand back and forth. "Jordan's a special case, and Rapunzel was trapped in an ivory tower, and Threnody is half demon, and Esk is half ogre -- he's Smash's son, so it's all a bit... different, but still. No school for any of them. Chex was taught by her dam, Chem, and her Uncle Chet. Cherie was mad that Chex has wings and turned her back on her and Chem, which is really unfair!"
Although she wondered where normal centaurs got their education. From their parents, same as Chex? Presumably so! At least she never heard of formal "schools" on Centaur Isle, though, there was a lot she didn't know about it. She could ask her father of course! But he wasn't there. Maybe Grey. Grey would definitely know, because he grew up in Mundania too, and said he was acting as Humphrey's assistant!