5/9/2023 0 Comments Educated by Tara Westover![]() ![]() ![]() I think that answer to that, you know, my parents had this philosophy about learning, this kind of idea of education that was very much about individual responsibility.Īnd I think that, in some ways, they took it a bit far. And what do you when the obligations that you owe your family are somehow in conflict with what you owe to yourself? But it would also take me away from my family. And I bought a algebra book and just taught myself enough algebra to kind of sort of pass the ACT, and I went to university.Īnd what I didn't know at that time was I was starting out on this path, this path of education, that would require a lot of my ideas to change, that would require my world view to change.Īnd that path of education would take me to these great places, Harvard, Cambridge. So when I was 16, I decided to try to educate myself. I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist. ![]() So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. ![]()
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