Editing Brigham Young (section)

===Educational endeavors===
[[File:Brigham Young by Charles Roscoe Savage, 1855.jpg|thumb|upright|Young photographed by [[Charles Roscoe Savage]], 1855]]
During time as prophet and governor, Young encouraged bishops to establish grade schools for their congregations, which would be supported by volunteer work and [[Tithing in Mormonism|tithing payments]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Jed Arthur |date=1968 |title=Brigham Young – Educator |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1490381 |journal=Peabody Journal of Education |volume=45 |issue=5 |pages=296–298 |doi=10.1080/01619566809537550 |jstor=1490381 |issn=0161-956X}}</ref> Young viewed education as a process of learning how to make the Kingdom of God a reality on earth, and at the core of his "philosophy of education" was the belief that the church had within itself all that was necessary to save mankind materially, spiritually, and intellectually.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Buchanan|first=Frederick S.|date=1982|title=Education among the Mormons: Brigham Young and the Schools of Utah|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/368068|journal=History of Education Quarterly|volume=22|issue=4|pages=435–459|doi=10.2307/368068|jstor=368068|s2cid=145609963 |issn=0018-2680}}</ref>

On October 16, 1875, Young deeded buildings and land in [[Provo, Utah]], to a board of trustees for establishing an institution of learning, ostensibly as part of the University of Deseret.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sloan|first=Robert W.|title=Utah Gazatteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake Cities, for 1884|publisher=Sloan & Dunbar|year=1884|page=[https://archive.org/details/utahgazatteeran00sloagoog/page/n290 278]|url=https://archive.org/details/utahgazatteeran00sloagoog}}</ref> Young said, "I hope to see an Academy established in Provo ... at which the children of the Latter-day Saints can receive a good education unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences that are found in so many of the higher schools of the country."<ref name="dusenberry" /> The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became [[Brigham Young Academy]] in 1876 under the leadership of [[Karl G. Maeser]],<ref name="dusenberry">{{cite news |first=Sarah |last=Bills |url=http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/43900 |title=Warren Dusenberry (1875–1876) |newspaper=[[The Universe (BYU)|The Universe]] |publisher=[[Brigham Young University]] |date=April 16, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207182134/http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/43900 |archive-date=February 7, 2012 }}</ref> and was the precursor to [[Brigham Young University]].{{sfn|Arrington|1985|page=368}}

Within the church, Young reorganized the [[Relief Society]] for women in 1867 and created organizations for [[Young Women (organization)|young women]] in 1869 and [[Young Men (organization)|young men]] in 1875.{{sfn|Arrington|1985|pp=352–353, 370–371}} The [[Young Women (organization)|Young Women]] organization was first called the Retrenchment Association and was intended to promote the turning of young girls away from the costly and extravagant ways of the world. It later became known as the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association and was a charter member of the National Council of Women and International Council of Women.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S., from November 1869 to June 1910, p. 93 |url=https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/26700 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=contentdm.lib.byu.edu |publisher=[[Brigham Young University]]}}</ref>

Young also organized a committee to refine the [[Deseret alphabet]]—a phonetic alphabet that had been developed sometime between 1847 and 1854. At its prime, the alphabet was used in two ''Deseret News'' articles, two elementary readers, and in a translation of the [[Book of Mormon]]. By 1870, it had all but disappeared from use.{{sfn|Alexander|2019|page=249}}