Joseph states that he was deprived of a benefit of an education and was instructed only in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Joseph Smith History circa 1832, 1, Church History Archives, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021
therefore 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 which const[it]uted my whole literary acquirements