Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki ~Geboku no Youkaidomo ni Kurabete Monster ga Yowai Sugirundaga~ - Vol. 10 Ch. 41

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There should be a light haired archer in Loid's party, she seems to be missing in this chapter, possibly a casualty?
 
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to write a book how to survive in dungeons and monsters in that world? it is not a bad idea. it is very useful but how many can... uh read that book?
It only needs a single person with a decent literacy to cover the whole party. It is easier to teach adventurer the basic of using a compendium rather than teaching them to be literate. He could also use image and symbol so even the most illiterate person can understand.
 
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It only needs a single person with a decent literacy to cover the whole party. It is easier to teach adventurer the basic of using a compendium rather than teaching them to be literate. He could also use image and symbol so even the most illiterate person can understand.
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You're assuming that at least one third of the population (if it's a party of at least 3 adventurers) would need to know how to read and write though. It's a fantasy story that doesn't take its world building too seriously, but looking at the way the setting is being presented, do you see a lot of schools and commoner children being sent to them? The only schools we've heard about are for nobles, and commoners getting in is such a rarity. Rather than deal with the literacy rate of a world like that, the author chose to have everyone in the world automatically know how to read and write...otherwise the whole premise for the guide book would fall apart. The guy who wanted to have adventurers learn in a standardized system is the one closest to achieving something that would allow the largest amount of people to learn the basics of dungeon survival, and that would include learning to read and write.
 
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It turns out being extremist doesn't work too well, who would have thought.

They don't seem to be mentioning that this all requires a decent literacy level, which feeds back into public education.
That falls back to a standard education system, and I'm pretty sure our MC just said that idea was stupid... Yeah, don't even consider taking the literacy rate of the common folk into account, otherwise this part of the story would fall apart.
 
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MC's logic when it comes to a standardized system makes no sense. A system that has people falling behind others, and they also enforce a "follow the leader" system is bound to fail? WTF? Isn't that basically EVERY government system and structure? Even he is part of one of those systems he is criticizing. He was following a leadership system up to the point where he rebelled, but he is only truly "free" because of the carry over powers his current body just happen to inherit from his previous life. His current self did not work hard to achieve and deserve the power he wields. He is following the "might makes right" approach and that is fine, but he is an exception, not the rule of what a common person's life can be like.
 
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Adventuring is random and chaotic by its very nature. Skills, preparation, knowledge, all that can mitigate the negative results. But everyone rolls a 1 sooner or later. There always hotheads. Things can and will go wrong no matter what you do. Thats life and that the truth of it all. There is no one shoe size fits all.
 
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While I can buy that he'll write a better book than others would, the idea that this world somehow never wrote down monster findings in a book is insane. Like, it doesn't even need to be a world with high literacy rates, it could just be something created by the adventurers' guild and then read by its employees and receptionists, so that way adventurers could be briefed on/taught about monsters they're not aware about. Having all of that be purely be word-of-mouth just seems baffling.

Maybe it'd make more sense if this world didn't yet invent paper/books yet, but from how it's shown here it seems like paper's readily available.
 
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You're assuming that at least one third of the population (if it's a party of at least 3 adventurers) would need to know how to read and write though. It's a fantasy story that doesn't take its world building too seriously, but looking at the way the setting is being presented, do you see a lot of schools and commoner children being sent to them? The only schools we've heard about are for nobles, and commoners getting in is such a rarity. Rather than deal with the literacy rate of a world like that, the author chose to have everyone in the world automatically know how to read and write...otherwise the whole premise for the guide book would fall apart. The guy who wanted to have adventurers learn in a standardized system is the one closest to achieving something that would allow the largest amount of people to learn the basics of dungeon survival, and that would include learning to read and write.
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I didn't said anything about getting anyone fixing literacy. I'm only saying they only need to teach enough for them to understand what those strange symbols mean. That's much easier than getting an illiterate to be literate. Even if they can't read/write, they still have functioning eyes.

Even if you want insist on going that way, you don't need to teach them to write, read is more than enough. The ability to write and read is completely different. For example, I could read Japanese to some extent, but don't expect me to write the same thing. The same reason why some people might understand spoken foreign language, but not being able to speak it.
 
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