[X] Knowledge Is Power, Now Stop Guarding It
-[X] "The Citadel would claim that the oaths given to Lords that their number take service with, compel them to only choose between giving council sought after, or holding one's tongue whether or not it is required." The Citadel isn't wholly, or even mostly full of people who don't honestly come by these words, but going by the latter half of what you have said, even someone working honestly can do grave harm by having their hands tied by either biases or political concerns that the Citadel would fervently deny they are embroiled in.
-[X] "A Maester is as much what he chooses to do with their knowledge as what he explicitly does not. Just as any other man or woman who wields power in this world. And mistake me not, knowledge is power, and the Citadel has guarded that power for thousands of years." Power is power, but unlike what most people believe in regards to secrets, the power of knowledge isn't squandered by sharing it. When the standard of learning is risen, then the depths to which knowledge can be expanded also rises with it.
-[X] "I am not ignorant of my own actions. I have carefully sequestered the secular authority that I believe necessary in order to reliably and productively rule my realm, but there is much power and agency that I share freely and widely as is possible, as I believe it a right for all thinking beings to be able to make informed choices." Because then they will be less likely to make poor ones, which force you to clean up a mess.
-[X] "To the Citadel, my policies are anathema. Their gatekeeping of ancient lore yet unseen is the only thing that makes them stand out in the myriad halls of learning I hope to raise across the world, so that people can come to grips with their own fates as much as they can." That's where the similarities end. They have allowed people without voice or opportunity gain some agency of their own... by denying the same opportunity to everyone else.
-[X] "Where they fall short is actually leveraging that knowledge to improve the world in any tangible manner, not always wholly of their own fault, I will admit freely, but improbably so does the onus of the failure to do so lie with them, given how long they have had to pursue a path of progress no less than patronage of like-minded individuals with the means to make their works reality." The Citadel had so long to make a difference and change the world for the better, and we are given reason to believe they have willfully acted to keep the world as it is instead. The world was a shitheap before magic returned, and right now the dung is on fire and you are struggling to put it out. They have done little and less to clean up after themselves.
-[X] "In what I hope to build, cooperation, mutual benefit and public welfare are of utmost importance, not the partisan games of yore." Something he shouldn't hold any love for, given what they have denied him for years.
-[X] "Shall factionalism never become a concern in such organizations again? I am not naive, but as I have said many times in similar context, there is little point in encouraging or making it easy, and plenty of sense in encouraging the opposite with all the levers at my disposal." An ounce of prevention is better than ten pounds of cure, especially when cure comes in the form of bloodshed.
-[X] "They are not the only organization who would oppose this new reality, nor shall they be the last. But they will pass, and those who took up their chains and robes to enrich the world with knowledge, or wield it for a good cause, will have further opportunities to do so." Both the people who joined to improve the world, and enrich themselves, will have the opportunity to live life the way they want to.
-[X] With a pleasant smile: "And those who seek to stand in the way of the future I envision, to the point that they would actively undermine it, can go straight to Hell." You will kill those that you have to, and drag everyone else along kicking and screaming if necessary.
