New School

The New School is an academic method, learning philosophy, and system of thought created within the Consortium Academy system and promulgated through it's series of IPS training schools. While not officially endorsed by the Academy system - in order to maintain the guise of academic liberty - it is the product of Consortium scholars and therefore remains the de facto orthodoxy for Consortium academia. 
Both the name and the school itself originates from an academic symposium first taking place at New Athens in SY 37.
== Influence ==
=== On Historical Studies ===
During it's time of scholarly influence, it produced a revisionist history of Earth from a Romano-centric perspective. It tends to view all events as deterministically leading to the establishment of the Consortium a necessiatate. It focuses on persons, philosophies, and events important to the Consortium while minimizing antagonistic viewpoints. 
=== On Language ===
Silvinus Herminus Januarius was a critical figure in the modern revival of Latin as an everyday use language.
It's school of linguistics coined the terms "Anglatin", "Cyrillic", and "Asiatic" to describe the three constructed unity languages of the Consortium. The three languages were formally codified by New School scholars in the early 100's out of an existing centuries-old trend towards linguistic unity, or, "dedialectization". Learning at least one of the three besides one's local dialect is compulsory for all Consortium citizens. 
The New School is also used as a propaganda tool of the Consortium by engaging in a sort of political correction through deliberately suppressing use of what it calls "Old Earth" terms and replacing them with others, such as the use of "Terra" in place of "Earth". 
=== On Art ===
New School scholastic organisations have constructed most of the major monumental works of public art in the Consortium era, including the homages to the many deities of Terran Humanism. 
=== On Timekeeping ===
The New School also produced the Standard Calendar method of timekeeping, renaming the days of the week and months of the year, and also defining the Standard Year as exactly the length of one Earth year. The Standard Calendar is so scientifically accurate that its degree of error is less than one second for the next million years.
=== On Popular Media ===
The New Media Company is a product of the New School and publishes the Consortium Review newspaper twice daily both in degradable pulp and electronic versions in every major city on Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Luna. 
== Criticism ==
Some detractors of Consortium politics have dubbed the New School as "Consortiumism", a poke at the increasing trend of restrictive social thought within Consortium space.
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