Week 21: Educated

Educated is Tara Westover's memoir. She grew up in a super conservative Mormon family in Idaho in the United States. She details a very unusual upbringing. Her family had a deeply seeded distrust towards the government, they didn’t believe in modern medicine or the public school system. The book is essentially a story of her metamorphosis, how she leaves the bubble she was brought up in and goes out into the real world, only to have everything she’s ever known challenged. Without a formal education, Tara ends up attending university at the age of 17, and then goes on to attend Harvard University, as well as Cambridge University where she obtains her PhD. 

 

Tara’s interview with Oprah: https://podcasts.apple.com/jo/podcast/super-soul/id1264843400?i=1000437295457