Educated
Educated is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the mountains of Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at Cambridge University. She started college at the age of 17 having had no formal education. She explores her struggle to reconcile her desire to learn with the world she inhabited with her father.
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What Hacker News says
- Educated by Tara Westover. A really wild story I couldn't put down after the first 3 pages. A must-read, esp. For HN readers.
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- Educated by Tara Westover. This account of growing up in the US paints a picture of the hurdles and self determination needed to come out alive/functional/sane/educated from a rural, poor, religious family.
- I'll recommend Tara Westover's Educated to anyone. Such a good book.
- -Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
-Educated By Tara Westover
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See https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/62787798-bill-gates?sh...
- I thought Educated by Tara Westover was a fascinating look at how people grow to have radical views when they're surrounded by people who hold those views (In Westover's family's case, survivalism, extreme Mormonism, and anti-governmentism).
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