User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Nords do trust magic/@comment-17114085-20140324182330/@comment-17114085-20140327131849

They distrust the college, mages and elves. All of those use magic, hence them distrusting magic. its not like they hate magic, they are just hesitant to accept people that use magic since in their recent memory mages were responsible(or are believe to be responsible) for many disasters and wars.

I think you are misunderstand what I was saying, a School of Magic is not referring to an actual School. A School of Magic is referring to a specific category/type of magic. For Example the School of Restoration refers to all the spells that are considered Restoration magic.

Like I said the only type of magic the Nords truly still respect is restoration, as it only helps and does no harm. Destruction like I said above is not entirely trusted at it is harmful, hence the guard saying "Don't go burning down any buildings." As for its practicality in combat yes that is why it is appealing and why almost everyone that is a mage learns a few destruction spells. But Nords are more physical than that, they prefer to hit things over the head with something. But I don't doubt that many Nords find Destruction magic useful.