Why was William Blake not sent to a regular school as a child?

William Blake was not sent to a regular school as a child because his education was provided at home by his mother. Blake viewed this arrangement as a positive experience, later writing, "Thank God I never was sent to school/ To be Flogd into following the Style of a Fool[.]"1

While he did not attend a traditional school, his father later supported his artistic aspirations by sending him to Henry Pars’s Drawing School in London from 1767 to 1772.2