drelldreams:

Thinking about how quarian education must be geared towards developing an aptitude for mechanics and engineering from a very young age since their survival depends on their population having good mechanical and engineering skills. They probably don’t start with this education stuff at middle or high school age. And it’s genuinely mandatory for all quarians from preschool to graduation.

Whereas I think humans in Mass Effect, have more schools with strong STEM programs, lots of schools probably have mandatory coding classes, but learning how to fix stuff or build stuff just wouldn’t be obligatory. Always an elective, and usually for the older kids around middle school age.

I’m thinking preschool aged quarian kids, age 3-4, are already given easy, introduction tasks in these topics. Of course they have arts, crafts, music, dance (dance is very important in quarian culture!), sports, but there would be a strong focus on mechanics & engineering. Since everyone has to help out on the Fleet, what they learn would be learned practically over and over again.

Pretty much every quarian, by the time they reach adulthood, has skills on par with an entry level ship mechanic and technician.