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In Battenville, Susan attended the district school where she learned basic reading and writing skills, in addition to sewing. When her request to be taught more advanced math was dismissed by the schoolmaster who thought that girls had no need for such knowledge, Susan's father decided that his five children, Guelma, Susan, Hannah, Daniel, and Mary, needed a better school. First located in the building with his new store and later in the family's brick house, the school he established introduced separate seating and illustrated primers. At a time when education for women was seen as unnecessary and potentially even harmful, Susan's father hired women teachers who had up-to-date training from female seminaries. In their new school, the Anthony children benefited from new teaching methods and new subjects, such as poetry and calisthenics. The one subject they were not allowed to learn was music because Quaker belief taught that music was too seductive for children.