tutelage

noun3

1. •
   The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.

   • The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. — 1848
2. •
   The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.
3. •
   Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.

   • Taught from their cradle-bed to know The bitter tutelage of wo, No idle fears in their bosoms glow, But pride and wrath in their dark eyes glance, As they lift their martyr'd fathers' lance. — 1827