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Throughout the novels we seem glimpses of how the Jedi/Sith maintain their traditions and history of their order's practices/collective knowledge. But what order best facilitated the passage of knowledge to the next generation of Sith/Jedi? Was it the Jedi with their archives or did the Sith with their own resources/instruction of master-apprentice relationship of the Banite Sith. Who imparted their students with more knowledge, and what order had the most effective teachers?

The Banite sith obviously were very, very good at teaching individual students, because each teacher would spend literally decades with a single one, while Jedi (or order-using Sith) split from their masters to work on their own sooner, or at least got involved in field work with less emphasis on the teaching.

On the flip side, the Banite method also had a vulnerability. If someone died too soon, knowledge was lost, and Darth Gravid came very close to ending the order in one go. Vader succeeded- while others tried to pick up the rule of two after, they had to climb a much bigger hill.

Darth Gravid and Ristelly Quist are the shittiest ones in their respective orders.

@Q99 it wasn't that Gravid died, it was that Gravid intentionally destroyed a ****ton of knowledge before he died.

As far as the Sith go, props to Bane Zannah and Plagueis.

Jedi, undoubtedly.

For whatever it's worth, Bane and Zannah snuck a spying device into the Jedi archives at one point.

The Jedi had fake holocrons in their archives for centuries without realizing.

Still leagues better than the Sith's way of doing things. The Jedi way of preserving and spreading knowledge is far superior to the Sith squirreling their swag in tombs, limiting their teachings or outright destroying stuff. The Jedi were constantly passing on the knowledge of the previous generations and adding new things, whereas the Sith intentionally made it hard for new Sith to gain knowledge.

Well the Sith are naturally self-destructive, so they wouldn't be able to maintain their knowledge as effectively as the Jedi. The Ancient Sith only used their knowledge/power to lure younger Sith for the sake of getting new bodies, tbh.