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- Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"?
- Joseph Smith (1832): "we were deprived of the bennifit of an education suffice it to say I was mearly instructtid in reading and writing and the ground <rules> of Arithmatic"
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)
Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"? Source:Joseph Smith:1832 History:Education
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