got a kid now how do i start educating it?

[mqwiemer]

I set up the desk chairs and chalk bord but no opten to use it comes up.

[Wedge]

They will periodically go do learning activities on their own you won't need to command them to do it. If you use dubs hygiene make sure they are staying clean though I've seen that stop them from going to do the various activities. If you look at the childs stats tab also you should see some little symbols on the top leftish side and it will tell you what they favour the most.

[Quill]

Make sure the kid has plenty of Freetime so they can learn

They'll have several forms of learning they can pick from and one of them is the Classroom where they'll have someone with them at the Desk to teach them a various topic like Medical or Melee. They'll also learn from other tasks like talking on the Comms console or following your pawns while they do work

[MadArtillery]

Most learning isn't from the classroom. You can hover over the icons near the learning bar to figure out what their current learning activities are, they will do it on recreation time.

[Donkey Anus]

click on a pawn and then right click on the child. Arrest should pop up click it

[CloudSeeker]

A child always have two different learning desires that they change once in a while. While a school desk and a chalk bord are among the things they can learn from, it isn't always one they have selected at the time.

From what I remember there are the following:
- Nature Running: Run around free in nature and study it. This is often a very dangerous thing as there is always a raid when they are out if you ask me.
- See someone else work: When a child just follows an adult around and see how they do things.
- Radio talk: If you have the Microelectronics research the child will want to use a comms console to talk with people on it and learn from that.
- School desk: Sit down and get taught by an adult. By far the most efficent way to learn.

When it comes to children you have to just realize that it will take time. They are not very useful as even if you give them 100% free time, they still will not have perfect 100% scores. This doesn't actually matter because as long as they are mostly within the 90% or 80%. You have more than enough time to get perfect benefits for them when they age up.
Teaching is only supposed to learn fill up their learning need. You then need time for the learning points to rack up.

You can just set children to be 100% on Rec time, but that is wasteful. You can also set them to clean and haul after age 3. Then at age 7 you can set them to cook or break rocks or even make clothing and so on. Just do not assign them work time. The child needs to be able to stop their work at any time to go and study. This means they are less effective, but it is good enough as children is not an effective workforce anyway.

[Veylox]

Just let them do their thing, if the classroom is set up they'll use it when it's the type of learning they need. In Rimworld education isn't really involved, survival should be your priority when it comes to kids, because they're extremely fragile and a stray bullet usually means death, plus they love to go "nature-running", meaning they'll chill in some corner of your map out for every hungry predator on the map to see

[kaiyl_kariashi]

as long as they're set to Anything it's no different than full recreation, besides that they actually contribute (full recreation is basically just for meeting the requirements of the precept that forbids child-labor, since them doing work will give people a negative mood even when set to Anything).

It's actually better since full recreation is over kill on keeping their learning need topped off, which they already prioritize over everything else under Anything.

[mqwiemer]

Originally posted by Donkey Anus:

click on a pawn and then right click on the child. Arrest should pop up click it

arrest?

[brian_va]

Originally posted by mqwiemer:

Originally posted by Donkey Anus:

click on a pawn and then right click on the child. Arrest should pop up click it

arrest?

Gotta show them who's in charge

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by mqwiemer:

Originally posted by Donkey Anus:

click on a pawn and then right click on the child. Arrest should pop up click it

arrest?

It does for sure teach them something. Life is hard on the rim.

[Noob.45]

Have you tried punching it?