EARLY EDUCATION
As Americans and as churchmen we did the right thing to take hold of school work in Utah. There were no public schools in the American sense among the Mormons. —EPISCOPAL BISHOP DANIEL S. TUTTLE
J_/ducation is one of the most important and dynamic facets of contemporary Cache County. Public education has replaced private learning as the primary route of students; however, in early Cache County that was not ready the case. Mormon settlers throughout the West established small ward schools which were often seasonal and definitely church controlled. Although the Mormon church established the University of Deseret in Salt Lake City, its primary concern remained physically conquering the arid West. As Mormons had moved under duress from Ohio to Missouri to Illinois and on to Utah, they never totady became a part of American public education, one of the nation's grand commitments. Like many other agrarian Americans of the time, education was a luxury for families who needed hands to mdk, plant, weave, weed, sew, can, and harvest. In die territory of Utah and Cache County, permanence finady became 189
