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The Sunday Schools in the UK were the first to ever bring literacy to the lower classes and helped bring about the idea of universal education. But when they first came about many in the government (both conservative and liberal) felt that they should be shut down and that the lower classes should not literate.
What if due to this thinking, the sunday schools were shut down by force?