Tara Westover
Born: 01-01-1986
Tara Westover is an American author best known for her bestselling memoir, "Educated." Born in Idaho in 1986, she was raised in a strict and isolated environment by survivalist parents, with no formal education until she was seventeen. Westover's journey to self-education led her to earn a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. Her work explores themes of family, education, and the transformative power of learning.
Book summaries for books written by Tara Westover
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I had no real education. I was a hard worker, I was good at reading, I was good at math, but I wasn't educated.
You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.
I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.
You can't just change the past. You can't just say what you wanted and make it true.
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
Some people are born into a world that they are not meant for.
I had crossed a line and my father, my family, my friends, would never forgive me.
I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others.
I had to believe it was still possible to change the course of my life.
I had to do what I had always done – keep moving forward.
I had finally opened my eyes to the truth. I had stopped to listen to the voice inside of me, the one that had been there all along.