Ricardian Academy for Foundlings

The Ricardian Academy for Foundlings was an educational institution founded in 1708 AN in Tiegang with the goal of applying the principles of Ricardian science to the instruction and psychological conditioning of orphaned and destitute children.

Facilities and Operation

The academy combined the functions of an orphanage and a psychiatric asylum under one administration. Orphans and wards of Tiegang were compulsorily enrolled and housed in dormitories on the academy's grounds. Their education adhered strictly to the theories and practices pioneered at Saint Richard's Asylum, where the academy was co-located.

Curriculum

A core component of the academy's curriculum involved adapted versions of Saint Richard's narrative immersion methods. Students were tasked with continually contributing to and elaborating an overarching fictional mythos grounded in Ricardian psychoanalytic concepts reinterpreted as a lived reality.

Any pupils who expressed doubt or dissented from the authorised narratives faced a range of punitive conditioning tactics. These included drug regimens to stunt development, electroshock therapy, and experimental surgical procedures - all aimed at reinforcing psychological conformity.

Legacy

While unethical by modern standards, the Ricardian Academy represented an ambitious attempt to reform education around the psychiatric principles of Ricardian Science. The systematised approach to psychologically programing youth reflected the movement's growing prominence.

Notable alumni who underwent the academy's "successful conditioning" later assumed faculty roles at Saint Richard's Asylum itself or joined the professional ranks of the International Mandate's expanding Ricardian psychiatry establishment in the 18th century.