Education and other forms of child torture in Regency England

With children heading back to school around most of the Western World, I have no doubt that a collective moan of dread went up into the heavens, the loudest coming from my youngest daughter, a junior in high school. I can’t blame her; homework, tests, assignments, pressures from the intricate and often brutal social structure within schools, teachers that don’t love their jobs or their students—not to mention the getting up early and sticking to…