Educated: A Memior - Tara Westover
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Tara Westover wasnt your garden variety college student. When the Holocaust was mentioned in a history class, she didnt know what it was (no, really). Thats because she didnt see the inside of a classroom until the age of seventeen. Public education was one of the many things her religious fanatic father was dubious of, believing it a means for the government to brainwash its gullible citizens, and her mother wasnt diligent on the homeschooling front. If it wasnt for a brother who managed to extricate himself from their isolatedand often dangerousworld, Westover might still be in rural Idaho, trying to survive her survivalist upbringing. Its a miraculous story she tells in her memoir Educated. For those of us who took our educations for granted, who occasionally fell asleep in large lecture halls (and inconveniently small ones), its hard to grasp the level of gritnot to mention intellectrequired to pull off what Westover did. But eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge University may h
