Mormonism LIVE: 111: Joseph Smith’s Secret Education – The Dartmouth Connection

Mormon Discussion Podcast: Leading With Faith · Jan 19, 2023 · 2h 36m

The running narrative within Mormonism is that Joseph Smith was an uneducated backwoods farm boy and that his lack of sophistication leaves the the Restoration as a miracle that no country bumpkin could have pulled off. But what happens when, with critical thinking skills, we take a look at the the Education he did have or had potential access to. Was Joseph Smith uneducated? Was he a middle school dropout as a surface level reading intimates? And what do we see when we look at the education of those around Joseph Smith and specifically within his family?CORRECTIONS [ There were two errors in…