Joseph Smith's education

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Joseph Smith's education

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• Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"?

we were deprived of the bennifit of an education suffice it to say I was mearly instructid in reading and writing and the ground rules of Arithmatic which constuted my whole literary acquirements.

—Joseph Smith, written by his own hand in 1832 two years after the publication of the Book of Mormon. (original spelling retained)

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Joseph Smith's education

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• Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"?

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