New teaching methods possible in Eclipse Phase (that I can think of at the moment) Psychosurgery: One of the psychosurgery procedures available is one that doubles your learning rate. With this you could finish your education/re-education quicker, but its likely to be more expensive and many people will likely a bit skittish about having someone poking around their minds. Plus I don't really know how many competent psychosurgens are out there. Such procedures might not even be legal in many habitats. Forking Teachers: The very best teachers could easily be forked. Unfortunately egocasting is expensive, so you are not likely to get forks egocasted around often. There is a 4 hour limit that enables the best merging results, so you are not likely to get any habitat to agree to send forks around that frequently to ensure that all egos merge well. Plus forks are considered property of the primary fork, so they might suffer bad treatment which might lead to the primary forks to become jaded after a few merges. Egocast to school habitats: This would reduce the troubles involved with forking good teachers, but it would likely mean that parents and children are separated for long periods of time. This has been done before and without disastrous results. Still it might be considered odd to pay for the right to have a child, but then send them away for someone else to raise them. Education by AI: Limited AIs can be programed with action skill up to rank 40, and knowledge skills to rank 80. If you are teaching practical skills, limited AIs can be competent. If you are teaching knowledge and facts, then limited AIs can work very well. Recorded Education Video (and other formats): While possible now, it might be likely in the future that any class is recorded. Recording technology is trivially easy to produce. Since (almost) everyone has mesh inserts, its real easy for people to record what they see and hear. Muses can turn on record without their host even asking. Accelerated Education: Its possible to accelerate the rate an infomorph runs at by as much as 60x. Imagine getting a full life education (12 grades + 4 years of post secondary) in quarter of a year. Unfortunately that proved disastrous with the lost generation (not that accelerated raising wasn't the only thing that was done to those poor souls). There may also be a risk of getting a distorted view of reality for spending so much time away from the real world.

Anyways, infomorphs start at a severe disadvantage. When they are kept in cold storage, they can take no action nor are they aware of the passage of time. Since it was about 10 years since they were put in cold storage, their skills are obsolete so even if they do escape, they are at a disadvantage in the free market. Considering it wouldn't be difficult to make a server with an off switch that only a sleeved morph can reach, and be built without mesh access, it would be easy to deal with a rouge infomorph. Considering that hacking was one of the favorite weapons of the TITANs, defenses have been added to deal with hacking so any activated infomorph is unlikely to know any tricks to hack their system. Biomorphs can't be hacked (except by TITANs) so it would be difficult to simply steal their master's morphs. You can also perform psychosurgery on a cold storage ego so they are more loyal to their masters, and to their belief system. Lets not forget that if they don't like their conditions or the crappy contracts, they can go back into cold storage. So yeah... things are difficult as an infomorph. In case you haven't noticed, I tend to think that infomorphs are everyone's bitch. You don't ever want to travel to bad server. Its too easy to get trapped by something that you can't get out of. As for infomorphs escaping and revolting, not every master is competent. You literally need to prevent every possible case from happening, while the indentured only need to succeed once. People who once served an indentured contract or 2 might be bitter about the experience and try to do something to help. People who were never indentured might feel the need to help anyways. Luck might also play a role too.

Fork out a beta, informorph him into a teaching simulation, crank up time acceleration, come back two weeks later, reintegrate with a headache, gain significant skill increase. No?

There is a significant risk of memory loss during fork merging after your fork has been separate for long periods of time. According to the chart (core rulebook, p. 275), after 1 week, all merging rolls suffer a -30 penalty and failure leads to severe memory loss, or minor memory loss on success. I don't want to begin to guess as to what kind of disaster might happen if a fork is allowed to run 2 years ahead of the original before trying to merge. You might be better off letting the fork become primary at that point. It might not even want to merge after 2 years. Better to go into the simulation yourself and not have to worry about these problems. Also the rules don't cover learning by forking. You're going to have to make those rules up.