Lucy Mack Smith records how Smith family educated their children.
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, Page [9], bk. 3, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021
I always besought the lord to spare> as also to secure the confidence and affection of my husband that we acting togather in the education and instruction of our children that we might in our old age reap the reward of circumspection joined with parental tenderness viz the Pleasure of seeing our children dignify the thier Fathers name by an upright and honorable course of conduct in after life