These world building prompts come from 3000 World Building Prompts, which you can get at Amazon. This section is focused on creating education systems.
- For where (sovereign power, settlement, etc.) are you defining this education system?
- Does basic education (grade school) exist?
- It is available to everyone?
- Are some groups (race, gender, etc.) discriminated against?
- What form does that discrimination take?
- How much protest of that discrimination is there?
- Using an equivalent of your country, to what grade level does basic education go?
- Is it mandatory? To what grade level?
- Are parents or others punished for failure to have kids educated to the required level?
- Does college or trade school education exist?
- Are apprenticeships acceptable forms of learning?
- If so, does a student live with their master?
- Is home-schooling an option?
- Do boarding schools exist?
- What sort of curriculum is taught?
- To what level is math taught?
- To what level is the dominant language taught?
- Are other languages taught and which ones?
- How much history is taught and how accurate is it? Is there propaganda in it?
- Are athletics considered important and taught?
- Is art and music appreciation taught and to what degree?
- Are more advanced subjects like biology, chemistry, and higher math (algebra, geometry) taught and do most people learn them?
- What magic subjects are taught so that most people are familiar even if they are not practitioners?
- To what level are technological subjects taught?
- Which education, if any, is publicly funded?
- Is private education available for all types?
- Are there public schools that are free to attend?
- Do taxes pay for public schooling? Is there a specific tax or industry that is taxed?
- Can one work a job to pay for school?
- For how long must one do so?
- Are scholarships available and what causes one to earn it?
- Must students live near the school?
- Does jurisdiction determine which school one attends?
- Do those living at school return home for holidays?
- For how many years is each type of schooling?
- How many months of the year is schooling at each level?
- How many hours of the day is schooling at each level?
- How many days of the week?
- What is given at graduation?
- Are libraries and labs onsite at school?
- At what age must students enroll in each required education level?
- Are there coed classes, dorms, and bathrooms?
- Are genders treated equally?
- Are species/races segregated?
- Are some species/races not allowed to be faculty?
- Are some species/races preferred as faculty of particular subjects?
- Are any schools famous and what caused their fame?
- Which school is notoriously difficult to be admitted to?
- Which is school is most esteemed and why?
- Where is most scientific, legal, and magical research done?
- How literate are populations with this education system?