little more than cottage industries The whale fur industry was also a series of family-operated small scale efforts with the essential training taking place on the job and not in schools The population felt no need for formal training in business methods or marketing Most people of Caladan felt little need to work at all Into this paradise came Dr Katsher, champion of arts and letters He gave the people of Caladan a great gift by starting the first Caladan Artists Conservatory His art colony grew m numbers, respect and quality After a few years it was evident that the people of Caladan not only could appreciate fine music, poetry, theater and the arts but that they were ready to participate Under Katsher's leadership the arts flourished The planetary governors, supported his work eagerly be cause it helped the local population aspire to excellence and attracted tourists from many other planets The first colony was located at Epidaurus in the province of Orange and was soon followed by others Within 250 years the entire planetary population had relatively easy access to some form of reading room, studio, theater, or auditorium A prodigious number of productions m dance, music and theater were presented The people particularly pre feired what Dr Katsher called the ephe meral' arts such as music, oral readings of poetry, short stones, theater water colors, and paper folding (known as "oreegahamee") However, there was some interest also in sculpture, composing, oil painting, film and philosophy Nevertheless, the people had a saying, Art is a flower, enjoy it now, for tomorrow another comes " In her Conversations Princess Irulan quotes CALADAN EDUCATION 145 CALADAN WINES Muad'Dib as saying that the people of Caladan paid the pnce one always pays for paradise in this life "We went soft, we lost our edge'' With no viable military force the planet was extremely vulnerable to invasion For protection, the ruling House often relied on mercenaries and outside "military advisors" to support the ill-prepared and disinterested local groups The aristocracy, chiefly the six minor families who ruled on each of Caladan* s three continents, and the four hundred provincial regents under these minor families, were given some specialized education Their children were sent to the Governance School in the capital city for a four-year program in statecraft lactic?, leadership, management, and civilian control But even this program was hardly as rigorous or demanding as it might have been, for after all, the problems the students would face would not be great and there was time to learn in the way that Caladan had always learned, from "watching and doing " The education of Paul Atreides, like the many before him who were groomed for real authority, was naturally an exception Paul underwent a constant and demanding program of training from his earliest childhood He learned weaponry from the swordmasters Idaho and Hal leek, be teamed the Atreides battle language from his father, he learned the subtleties of Voice and observation from his Bene Gessent mother Paul was taught about poisons, transport, military tactics, and wilderness survival He learned to appreciate Gurney Hal leek's music, as his people did Paul was trained as a mental by Thufir Hawat and as a healer by Dr Wellington Yueh He learned to lead others arid to fol low orders, with the objective of preparing him to rule the planet Ironically, it was not enough It took the hard knowledge gained on harsh dry Dune to prepare him to rule the Empire INFORMAL EDUCATION Few histories are kept in paradise, time is of no concetti and few worry long about the errors of the past Without the aid of written records our ability to reconstruct the informal educational system is limited But we do know that there was great reliance on "family teaching" and on "watching and doing ' A child could learn how to live in paradise by simply participating m normal family life A little time spent on the family vegetable plot, maybe a few hours spent fishing or swimming, or tending the family garden preceded an evening of quiet stones or campfire dances One day was much like another Of primary concern in the informal training of the young v/as preparation for the dangers of their water rich environment Children were taught to swim before they learned to walk They learned the dangers of mud slides, flash floods, and the various methods of water transport, the most popular of which was sail rafting They learned to fish both for pleasure and for food They also learned how to find their way through the dense, fast-growing vegetation that covered most of the land masses on the planet Beyond the survival skills for children and basic econom ics of the family business for youngsters there was little else to be concerned with in Caladan, "the paradise planet of the miracle seas" PF Furtker reference FRFMEN EDUCATION CAIADAN WINES.