Orbanian

The Orbanians, natives of the planet Orban, are a civilization of Humans in the Milky Way Galaxy. They are a technologically advanced race which seems to be originally descended from a pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican culture (though oddly, the actual people appear European, perhaps due to adaptation to a non-tropical environment). The Orbanians use Nanites to transfer information from children known as Urrone. The Urrone have the ability to rapidly learn vast amounts of information due to the large quantities of nanites implanted into their brains. However, during a ceremony called the Averium these nanites are removed from the child and distributed to the general population. This process is the Orbanians sole means of education, but it leaves the former Urrones in an infantile mental state, and since post Urrone children can't be taught via nanites the society believes that they cannot be educated again.

The SGC started an information exchange program through which the Orbanians sent an Urrone child named Merrin, to teach Samantha Carter, and Earth, how to build naqahdah reactors. However, after Jack O'Neill learned of the Averium's effects, he took Merrin to a school in an attempt to convince her there were other alternatives. Jack believed that what the Orbanians did was akin to child abuse and insisted that Merrin not be returned to Orban to undergo the Averium. In the end he was forced, partially at her urging, to return her for Averium. However after Merrin's Averium, her experiences on Earth were transferred to the entire Orbanian people, who then rediscovered learning "the old way" and began teaching their post Urrone children.