This chapter examines Clara’s and Robert’s general educations and musical training in the context of schooling in early nineteenth-century Germany, underscoring aspects of the instruction they received that were typical and those that were unusual for individuals of their classes and genders. As relatively privileged children, Clara and Robert both benefited from general educations that far surpassed those available to children of the peasant and working classes; by virtue of his gender, however, Robert’s general schooling was much more robust than Clara’s. Privilege also afforded Clara and Robert access to extensive musical instruction, which intersected in the person of Friedrich Wieck, Clara’s father. Friedrich, himself an autodidact, trained his daughter tirelessly from the earliest age, providing her with an extraordinary musical education, one that is all the more astonishing for the era, given her gender.