Quote Originally Posted by MFauli View Post
About the telomer-regeneration: Shouldn´t this be an ability that everyone can learn? Fixing stuff seems rather unspecial.
Think of it as a final safeguard. If a fiend or karma demon cannot be stopped, eventually they'll die of old age, illness, or their own genes becoming unstable due to their Cantus. Given how long Saki has been practicing fixing that vase, it is apparently quite difficult, and that's only the first exercise to achieve that. It doesn't seem like an ability that would spontaneously develop from one's subconscious, it requires a lot of concentration.

You want to give that ability to someone with an extremely stable psyche, like Tomiko believes Saki has.

Also, who wants to live forever? It's a tough skill, those who can pull it off get the "reward" of watching everyone around them die of old age, like Tomiko said.
Quote Originally Posted by Uchiha Barles View Post
That makes the education committee come across less as a driving force behind the village's protection, and more as a mere tool.
Education maintains the status quo for the sake of stability, and Ethics carefully guides society forward. If Tomiko has been ruling their community for 200+ years, she finally found someone who can guide them in a new direction.

Both are necessary, and Ethics > Education in the hierarchy because otherwise society would simply stagnate.