Quote Originally Posted by USERMAATKA View Post
We already get bonuses when faction members are educated and gain a nice retinue of educated professionals. increasing influence magement etc. However even without a faction member in the city a school should impart some benefits to a settlement. they were places for mathematicians economists botanists doctors etc.
Economists? The study of economy is only a few centuries old. Classical academies weren't like modern universities: they didn't produce professionals like doctors and agricultural scientists. Rather, they trained philosophers and rhetoricians. Hence the effects of an academy depend on the governor being susceptible to such ideas (although someone who is good at maths is always useful).

Similarly, the nomads must have some form of education, but that doesn't mean they had formal institutions for higher learning. Greek and Celtic smiths didn't learn their skills at an academy either.