Not sure if the more mundane spells would be appropriate, or if they could be assumed to be known by any initiate. Things like boiling water (Control + Fire), lighting a torch (Control + Fire), creating a light ball (Control + Fire again) and any other practical yet not astonishing spells.
Oh, absolutely. Remember that when you start to learn something, you will be very limited in your spell selection, to low power levels, until you have put some XP into it. The other way to gain XP - by casting spells - requires that you know a couple low-level spells to train with.
