Here's what Grok pulled up based on primary sources:
Austria: Allgemeine Schulordnung (General School Ordinance), December 6, 1774
Signed by Empress Maria Theresa (drafted by Johann Ignaz Felbiger)....
Where did you get a "political tool of governance" if they learnt how to read, write, knit? Wtf? It would be much easier to control the flock if they left us in the middle ages religious hell.