Egelric's only formal education comes from books. As early as 1069, he was reading books about architecture that Alred had loaned him. He couldn't read much at the time, but he studied the drawings.

But mostly, Egelric is just a capable and curious and clever guy when it comes to hands-on labor. He has always been the sort of guy who watches craftsmen at work, studies how bricks are laid together, takes things apart, and so on. He would be the sort who fixes his own Jeep and hangs his own drywall. All you have to do is put him in a situation where he can observe some new manual skill or technique, and he will automatically start learning.

And since Egelric was the foreman, he probably got a little undeserved credit at times. You know, one of his masons would come and say "We can't build that wall there because of BLAH." And Egelric would say, "Hmm, well what if you BLAH?" "Well, we can't BLAH because of BLAH but maybe..." "If you BLAH?" "That might work." "Make it so." And then a week later Sigefrith says "Egelric! You are my hero!"

For that matter, given Sigefrith's construction fetish, as revealed in "Colburga meets the majesty", a lot of Egelric's education might come from Sigefrith. Sigefrith LOVED to talk building with Egelric, back in the day. He was always bugging Alred, "When can Egelric come to my house and play with meeee???"