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Seems to me that Joseph Smith was a creative genius with a good memory and some ability toward self-education.

Makes me wonder what Joseph Smith might have been able to accomplish with a formal education. Would such an education have homogenized his creative ability into an ordinary religious view or set him on a more traditional career path?

formal education is oppressive.....it is merely boot camp...its value is specific and arguably subjective.

"Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth." - Pablo Picasso

Good point Subgenius. I imagine the hills of Palmyra would be as formative as the playing fields of Eaton, and that more education itself would simply stymie both outcomes.

This thread reminds me of "a little knowledge is dangerous."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_Criticism

Joseph Smith operated from what he knew, which was not much. Maybe his later craziness came from his own massive cognitive dissonance.

moksha wrote:Good point Subgenius. I imagine the hills of Palmyra would be as formative as the playing fields of Eaton, and that more education itself would simply stymie both outcomes.

is that anywhere near Eton?

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