None of the men could teach Susan "long division" or understand why a girl should insist upon learning it.

One of the women maintained discipline by means of her corset-board used as a ferule.

As soon as Mr.Anthony finished the brick store he set apart one room upstairs for a private school, employed the best teachers to be had and admitted only such children as he wished to associate with his own.
When the new house was built a large room was devoted to school purposes.

This was the first in that neighborhood to have a separate seat for each pupil, and, although only a stool without a back, it was a vast improvement on the long bench running around the wall, the same height for big and little.

The girls were taught sewing as carefully as reading and spelling, and Susan was noted for her skill with the needle.