3.11 Poetry, Spies, and the Church Education System

Face in Hat

This was a fun one and we went all over the place. From a really great 1700s poem on truth, to BYU spy rings, to the nature of character in education, join us as we look at what church education looked like in the 60s and speculate on how it might have been different today.

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

"Act Well Thy Part", David O. McKay's Lifelong Motto

https://education.byu.edu/magazine/winter2016/act_well_thy_part

"Home Literature", Orson F. Whitney

http://mldb.byu.edu/homelit.htm

Isaac Watts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Watts

High res shot of the Isaac Watts poem, from “The improvement of the mind”

https://archive.org/details/suppimproveofmin00wattuoft/page/72/mode/2up

Ernest L. Wilkinson, spy ring on wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_L._Wilkinson#The_1966_BYU_spy_ring_controversy

Ernest L. Wilkinson and the 1966 BYU Spy Ring: A Response to D. Michael Quinn, by Jeff D. Blake

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V28N01_175.pdf

Dialogue book report podcast

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/dialogue-book-report/

Why Utah Mormons Should Become Democrats: Reflections On Partisan Politics

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/why-utah-mormons-should-become-democrats-reflections-on-partisan-politics/