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Joseph Smith's education
Was Joseph Smith well-educated because he was "home schooled?"
we were deprived of the bennifit of an education suffice it to say I was mearly instructid in readingandwriting 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)
we were deprived of the bennifit of an education suffice it to say I was mearly instructid in readingandwriting 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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