Education?

Ansuru · Post by **Ansuru** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:38 pm

So you think you can walk, trot, run, and jump on four paws without practice? Move silently without learning to be aware of your altered body's position in relation to the world around you? Fight in a style completely different from anything you've ever experienced as a human? Tell scents apart from one another?

Nuh-uh. These are all things that are learned. With an adult intelligence and a body that doesn't need to grow out of its "helpless baby" phase, you'll certainly learn basic motion faster than you did for your human form, but more complicated skills and actions would require training and dedication, just as they do for your human form. Also, don't forget that a lot of what an onlooker considers "puppy play" is, in fact, an undisciplined form of such training. :p While you didn't learn the skills of a black belt running around as a kid, you probably got pretty good at running, jumping, climbing, etc. through practice and learning from friends who could do it better.

Instinct would support certain behaviors—ie in relation to dominance/submissiveness, your expressions, etc—and potentially affect your awareness of certain things—the scent of a smoking forest fire, for instance—but nobody rides a bike on instinct...it's a learned behavior.

BlackWolfDS · Post by **BlackWolfDS** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:32 pm

That's assuming if your bitten and not born a werewolf. Again, that plays a factor in this (IMO)

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:33 pm

OH SCREW IT!

LET THE WOLF BE STUPID HE DOESNT NEED EDUCATION!

Motsiewolf · Post by **Motsiewolf** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:31 pm

BlackWolfDS · Post by **BlackWolfDS** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:37 pm

ok then....that was special...

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:38 pm

the only ideas i have are speacil

WerewolfKeeper3 · Post by **WerewolfKeeper3** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:41 pm

(Special doesn't begin to cover what you are.)
Ouch! Hey that was harsher than usual. What the heck?
(I'm tired and grouchy. Leave me be, before i bite you, and take a chunk out of your arm.)
Yipe!
(very funny. {growls low in his throat.})
{backs up} Oh Boy. I'll stop.
(Good. Now get me a snack. No meat. Now get!)

Xiroteus · Post by **Xiroteus** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:44 pm

It would depend on the type of werewolf in the story, I always had the thought they would be as smart as the person they are.

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:22 pm

WerewolfKeeper3 wrote:
(Special doesn't begin to cover what you are.)
Ouch! Hey that was harsher than usual. What the heck?
(I'm tired and grouchy. Leave me be, before i bite you, and take a chunk out of your arm.)
Yipe!
(very funny. {growls low in his throat.})
{backs up} Oh Boy. I'll stop.
(Good. Now get me a snack. No meat. Now get!)

.....

*growls and pushes keeper off a cliff*

MUHAHAHAHA!!!

Mess with me and you get the cliff!

cumulusprotagonist · Post by **cumulusprotagonist** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:31 pm

It depends on whether you mean any education at all or
Schooling versus self education

Regardless of laws everyone has a choice to learn things or not.

Unless you are talking about how they should be represented in fiction it is not up for you or anyone else to decide this.
For fiction it would seem more realistic if some were educated and some were not.

Either way it is up to the individual person.

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:00 pm

All things considered, I'd expect a Werewolf to be somewhat more educated than the equivalent Smoothskin.
It's a matter of survival: to prevent detection, and to find others of their kind; OR...sympathetic humans.
It might not be "book-learning" but education it would definitely be!

23Jarden · Post by **23Jarden** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:50 pm

I like the smart were. (Anthony from Bitten) It sort of reminds me of Hannibal Lecture.

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:31 pm

great...comparing a werewolf to A PSYCHOPATH!

cumulusprotagonist · Post by **cumulusprotagonist** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:13 pm

Hannibal Lecter was not a typical physcopath but still not easily comparable to characters from the "Women of the Underworld" series.
The cannablism is not the issue, killing someone because you think they play bad music is the issue. Hannibal Lecter's mindset is hardly comparable to Anthony's.
But I can see how it may remind you of Hannibal. Both characters have more to them than can be easily seen, and both characters have killed people. In this sense maybe it is comparable on a more generic level, taking away the fact that Hannibal is a phsycopath.

Bitten did not use the "Monster" view of werewolf, it used an empathetic view. Hannibal is much much more of a monster than Anthony is.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:24 pm

OK, I couldn't resist...

"We don't need no education..." (Pink Floyd music)

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:29 pm

i hears ya!

JoshuaMadoc · Post by **JoshuaMadoc** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:39 am

I would die for education.

cumulusprotagonist · Post by **cumulusprotagonist** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:23 pm

Scott Gardener wrote:OK, I couldn't resist...

"We don't need no education..." (Pink Floyd music)

All in all you're just another brick in the wall...

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:36 am

kitetsu wrote:I would die for education.

then you really need to get out more....

JoshuaMadoc · Post by **JoshuaMadoc** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:06 am

wolf4life wrote:then you really need to get out more....

Easier said than done.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:26 am

Scott Gardener wrote:"We don't need no education..." (Pink Floyd music)

Hey! Santa! Leave the booze alone!

... oops, sorry, wrong version there...

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:27 pm

kitetsu wrote:
wolf4life wrote:then you really need to get out more....

Easier said than done.

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