Education in Zion

One part of the exhibit that I really thought was interesting was the part about all the academies the church set up. It talked about all the schools that were made when the pioneers first came to Utah and how all of them were church schools, which I should've realized before because the pioneers were all mormons, but I'd just never thought about it before. I knew about Brigham Young Academy, but that was it. I didn't know that there were so many church schools. I also didn't realize that that's where seminary and institute came from. It was added on to other schools for kids who couldn't go to the church academies. I also didn't know that the church still has schools in like Mexico and Somoa and places like that where there aren't other schools for the kids to go to. I thought that was way cool; I think it would have been great to grow up in a church school and have religion put into the regular academic curriculum like that.
Another thing I thought was interesting was in a different section, but it talked about priesthood schools, which I had never heard of before. What I thought was really funny about it though, was this list of things the students repented of before they came to class and one of them was oversleeping. I had never thought of that as something to repent of before, and especially back then when they had to get up at like five and milk the cows or whatever I don't imagine it would be a big problem, so that was really interesting.