@bewo001 Social hierarchy in the Netherlands in that era might be different, but here's an example of a teacher who broke into the educated classes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Bolland
He started as a teacher, was mostly self-taught but made it to professor in Leiden. If I remember well he was in communication with a professor there during his teacher years, also through a lot of letters.
(he had unpalatable views; I know about him as I'm interested in Dutch radical criticism of the New Testament)
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