my mother was a sunday school teacher.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A Sunday school (also sometimes referred to as a Sabbath school) is a Christian educational institution, usually (but not always) catering to children and other young people. Many Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh Day Baptists, and other sabbatarian communities hold their Sabbath Schools on Saturdays. Sunday schools in England were first set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children. William King (see memorial in Dursley Tabernacle Church) first started a Sunday School in Dursley, Gloucestershire, and suggested to his friend Robert Raikes, that he start a similar school in Gloucester, resulting in Raikes being generally quoted as starting the schools as he was editor of the Gloucester Journal and wrote an article in his Journal resulting in many clergymen supporting it. It aimed to teach the youngsters reading, writing and cyphering (doing arithmetic) and a knowledge of the Bible. By 1785, 250,000 English children were attending Sunday School. There were 5,000 in Manchester alone. By 1895, the 'Society for the Establishment and Promotion of Sunday Schools' had distributed 91,915 spelling books, 24,232 Testaments and 5,360 Bibles. The Sunday School movement was cross-denominational, and through subscription built large buildings that could host public lectures as well as classrooms.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sunday school is a Christian educational institution for  children and young people."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know it as Adult Bible study for the adults"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I see. Seventh-Day Adventist and other sabbatarians hold their schools on Saturdays."}, {"role": "user", "content": " Sunday Schools were first set up in the 1780s in England to provide education to working children"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Correct, and they aim to teach kids reading, writing, and arithmetic with a knowledge of the Bible."}, {"role": "user", "content": "By 1785, 250,000 English children were attending Sunday School. That's a lot of kiddies !"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It seriously is. There were over 5,000 in Manchester alone. Wow!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow ! By 1831 Sunday schools in Great Britain were attended weekly by 1,250,000 children"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "And the Sunday School movement is cross-denominational.  They built large buildings as well as classrooms to hold it in."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love that aspect of it. Sunday schools simply attempt to offer meaningful instruction concerning Christian doctrine and keep little or no record of performance for any given week."}]