How Did Maria Theresa Influence Austria By Reforming The School System?

To what extent did Maria Theresa influence Austria by reforming the school system?
The enlightened despot Maria Theresa reformed the Austrian school system that is in place in Austria till now. By reforming the school system, Maria Theresa gave the monarchy a more civic and caring reputation, spread equality and increased the literacy rate.
Maria Theresa had a civic reputation in comparison to other monarchs during her time. Maria Theresa gave birth to sixteen children, eleven girls, and five boys. When she was twenty years old, she gave birth to her first child and when she was thirty-nine she gave birth to her last. Five died before becoming an adult because the child mortality was very high at this time. Many women were mothers and had
“Austria had the highest level” of the literacy rate in the whole Hapsburg Empire because of the educational reform. Many people learned to read in school. Also Math and common knowledge of History were taught, which prevents same mistakes nowadays. People got generally smarter. By introducing mandatory education, she gave the people in her country the chance to have an understanding of what is going on in their country and to have a say. She was her time ahead in Baroque and much earlier than her emperors, realized that education was a human’s right. In the 1970s, which was even after Maria Theresa’s time, the dictator Pol Pot ordered his soldiers in Cambodia to shoot people when they seem like academics, an intellectual key sign, like the glasses, which “threaten the regime.” His intentions are cruel and egoistic, and he wanted to keep his people dumb, so they are not able to take the power from him. Comparing him with Maria Theresa, Maria Theresa was a selfless woman who only wanted the best for her folk. Even nowadays in some poor-developed countries, like Pakistan, children, especially girls are not allowed to go to school, because they role is to stay at home and clean, cook, and care for the children. In 2012, “Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen” , on the way to school in Pakistan but happily survived. This tells that we are not totally reformed yet and that the world still has a long way in front of it before ensuring every person this human right. Later Maria Theresa opened, laid that path to school improvements. Later in 1869, the mandatory school time was increased to eight years and in the twentieth century, there were more possibilities available after school like secondary and colleges of further education. Her son and also part co-ruler Joseph II extended many of her reforms, including the education and opened other educational