Academy displaying -1 scholar to be educated.

[Orlor]

What Iarlis said is correct.

What you are getting is the free scholar (50k of each resource).

That is also correct though that you need to purchase more scholarships in order to get to the point to educate more scholars.

[Cloud7274]

I will concede and say we both have valid points.

[larlis]

the free means u don't need to spend the resources it cost to build it. Of course u'll need to buy the scholarships for it...
Think on this scenario; you and me are in the same guild, Im leaving the world. I educate 100 scholars in one city and i give that city to you. You now have gained a 100 free scholars. if you got them without later having to get the scholarship you would have a serious advantage, an advantage that wouldn't be completely fair don't you think..? Or even worse: I'll do that with all my 100 cities and sell you my account...
Fair play? I think not.
EDIT
I think it has to do with the fact the scholarships are tied to you as a player, the scholars to the city... If you lose all your cities you'll see you still have the same scholarship level if you decide to have another go and start from scratch.

[Cloud7274]

Answer me this. A scholar is educated from a certain number of scholarships correct. So why then do I need to buy scholarships for an ALREADY educated scholar?????? There is no logical answer to this.

[Orlor]

Larlis hit some of the main points.

It is to prevent people from just scholar farming each other. If you are going to scholar farm, you aren't going to be able to educate scholars (unless you buy a lot of scholarships).