GH describes the basics of 19th century school as "reading, writing, and arithmetic."

A letter from JS to OC, scribed by FGW.

PR describes translation of BOM, highlights JS's lack of education.

AL describes how he will run as a representative and uses his legal knowledge to bolster his campaign.

JS obtained the plates in 1827 and commenced translating them then.

Joseph states that he was deprived of a benefit of an education and was instructed only in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

J. Orville Taylor provides commentary on public schools during Joseph's time.

Mulholland records the account of the BOM translation; Joseph used instruments he called U&T.

CH rebuts TPA, calls JS "without education or genius" with "a little low cunning."

Lucy Mack Smith reports that Smith family read revolutionary literature.

Luc Mack Smith reports that Joseph didn't like books in her memoirs.

Lydia Gates Mack, mother of Lucy Mack Smith, taught school and was an accomplished woman.

LS describes how her husband taught school during the winter-time.

LS describes how Hyrum went to an academy in Hanover.

JS worked as a day laborer.

WA says JS could barely read and could only really write his name

Orson Pratt describes Joseph Smith's limited education.

Pomeroy Tucker asserts that Joseph was unlearned and spent more time outside.

Pomeroy Tucker highlights how LDS have used Joseph's lack of education to defend the Book of Mormon.

MT's first book for comparison to the age of JS translating the BOM.

In a letter to James T. Cobb, William S. Sayre claims that Joseph Smith, Sr. was educated.

Joseph Smith had a limited education

Smith family knew Joseph did not have proper education.

CB says he went to school with JS.

SP says that JS had a poor reputation as a student in school.

S.F. Anderick, in a statement, reports that Hyrum Smith was able to teach school, Joseph was not.

JHG notes that the original manuscript of the BOM didn't have punctuation.

Lyman Stowell reports that Joseph went to school.

JWR says SR had high-quality education.

Evelyn M. Wood says Joseph might have been taught his letters in around 1810.

Joseph Smith went to school and was not as ignorant as some portrayed him.

Bruce A. Van Orden reports that Hyrum Smith went to school much earlier than Joseph.

David Herbert Donald describes 19th-century education for Abraham Lincoln.

AL was sought after to write letters for his neighbors as few could write well at that time.

HS had access to Dartmouth educational ideas.

TMTH&M summarizes the publication of MT's first book.

The RDOCS gives biographical and academic details of John S.