Originally Posted by
Shoebopp
Sharp characters lean towards Cultured/Erudite, and Dull characters lean towards Unschooled/Pragmatic. Schools will push characters towards Cultured/Erudite, but watch out! If the character is also Uncharismatic and Languorous, he'll advance even further into Scholastic and Pedantic.
Regardless of how educated you are (Cultured -> Erudite -> Scholastic -> Pedantic), as long as you have *some* education you will have higher chances of acquiring other traits like Outstanding Speaker and Philosophically Inclined. However, once again there are caveats, since educated but Uncharismatic characters can gain points in Tedious Speaker for example!
amazing, so temples actually do something except for bonuses in happiness/trade/law/ect, I always wondered why some characters become country bumpkins, is it because they're parked in a city that has a temple dedicated to farming, or the farms-to-city ratio plays a role
very cool to know, thank you very much
So in general you should dedicate one settlement as an education center and build expensive schools there, then plop FMs there until they either turn 28 (they'll stop advancing in the Cultured traitline) or until they become either Cultured or Erudite (last levels before they become frail nerds). You can leave Charismatic or Vigorous characters there even longer since they don't run the risk of becoming Scholastic and beyond so that they'll continue to accumulate secondary traits related to education, but every year they spend studying is one less year they're running a settlement.
You may also be interested in the traits that temples encourage. They're related to the temple "archetype" that you can see in the building browser. Temple of Fun, for example, encourages vices, while Temple of Farming makes you a better farmer at the cost of social skills. For governors-in-training you generally want Temple of Governors while for aspiring generals you'd want Temple of Fertility or Battle. The former gives extra hitpoints while the latter probably makes you a better attacker.