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Ten thousand years old was considered the age of majority and also the time under school was finished and it was also when they were ready for university or the workforce. The only good thing about the school system was that we got to be with the same twenty-five kids throughout our ten thousand years in under school.
I find that ten thousand years is not really that much time if one considered how old our teachers already were, which at the time seemed ancient to me, it would not be that much time at all. Now being over fifty thousand years old myself I am not too far from my old teachers of under school that were over forty thousand years old at the time.
Our under school system, in most eyes, is an advanced system of levels that teaches students key aspects of our life, and how everything as we perceive it works in the universe. Or universes depending on what paradigm that you are thinking of as all is theory until it is actually discovered to exist. The laws of the universe act upon the Dochani differently than other races in the universe, in fact these laws effect Dochani less than other races.
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For now our under school system has ten main sections and each of those sections are made up into five sub-sections for the first section and two sub-sections for the last nine sections. The first section is called pre-school and each sub-section in it is two hundred and fifty-seven point six years long and their names are crawl, walk, run, swim and flight.
This first section of schooling is very crucial in a Dochani child’s overall development. It is the first twelve hundred and eighty-eight years that affect a Dochani child the most and those years are usually habit forming. During this time they go through the beginnings of mathematics, physics, chemistry, architecture, biology, genetics, engineering, linguistics, languages of the universe, art, healing, offensive Dochani ability, defensive Dochani ability, and physical education.
When a Dochani child hatches they are only nineteen to thirty pounds in weight and thus care has to be taken so that the Dochani child will grow up properly. The first couple of months are crucial for a Dochani considering that nearly half of their adult weight is gotten in this time and this is another reason why only one egg is laid at a time. Average adult weight for a Dochani is three hundred and eighty-three pounds for males and six hundred and eleven point five pounds for females.
After two months a male Dochani would be roughly one hundred and sixty-eight pounds and a female Dochani would be roughly two hundred and sixty-nine pounds and about two thirds of adult Dochani height, which would be about five feet for the male Dochani child and about six feet and four inches for the female Dochani child. Because of this growth in mass crawling does not begin until five months after the egg has hatched, walking not till two years after hatching, running not till ten years after hatching and swimming not till fifty years after hatching.
Flight does not begin till the juvenile feathers have completed forming, which is a bit more than five hundred and seventy-five years after hatching. Although the physical aspects of a Dochani take longer than most other races, the brain develops exponentially in a Dochani. At only two months old, a Dochani child begins to speak. By five months conceptual thought develops, and fluent speech is articulated.
Two years into life the Dochani dot organ develops and rudimentary healing and defensive Dochani ability is possible. Ten years into life the Dochani is better at healing and defensive Dochani ability and has rudimentary offensive Dochani ability. Fifty years into life the Dochani have satisfactory healing, defensive Dochani ability and offensive Dochani ability. Although a Dochani child is bright enough and resourceful enough to learn these things on their own, it is better to get training through the under school because training on one’s own reduces the chances for a Dochani to survive in the often harsh universe.
Some Dochani have learned on their own in the past, but not too many of those came to realize their own potential and had died far too long before they had ever reached a venerable age. Survival is for the fittest of any race of beings and even the Dochani race have faced extinction with races that were far superior in thought, and deed than them.