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Name: Educated
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Author: Tara Westover

Tara Westover

A Memoir

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What’s in it for me? A woman’s journey from religious fanaticism to educated empowerment.

Kindergarten, elementary school, high school, college. This is the path most Americans are put on by their parents to get an education and, hopefully, down the line, a well-paying job and a good life.

For Tara Westover, the outlook was quite different. Raised in a Mormon family in Idaho, with a father who believed schools were little more than brainwashing facilities and that a woman’s proper place was in the home, getting a formal education was simply not a priority. If Tara was going to get one, she would have to fight for it.

These blinks tell her story; from the early days as young girl in a deeply religious community, to the culture shocks of college, and her long journey to earning a doctoral degree at Cambridge University.

Along the way, you’ll learn

when the Westovers believed the Days of Abomination were set to occur;
how an Intro to Psychology class can lead to a life-changing epiphany; and
the true price Tara paid for her education.

Tara Westover grew up on a farm and her Mormon family had an unusual approach to schooling.

When the author, Tara Westover, was seven years old, she enjoyed her life on the family farm in rural Idaho. She remembers fondly the days spent playing out in nature, with the wind blowing through her hair like a warm breath from the nearby mountains. On those days, it was as if she were one with the conifer trees and the wild wheat that covered the hills.

Tara was the youngest of seven children, and even when she was young and carefree, she knew that her family was different.

To begin with, neither Tara nor her siblings went to school. In fact, Tara had never set foot in a school, nor had she ever been to a hospital or even a doctor’s office. So, as far as the state of Idaho was concerned, Tara didn’t exist, since she was born at home and thus hadn’t been issued a birth certificate.

But this doesn’t mean that Tara didn’t learn plenty of valuable lessons during her childhood. One thing she got very good at was bottling peaches in summer, when they were ripe, and then rotating the supplies during winter. She was also well versed in the rhythm of the nearby mountain, Buck’s Peak, or, as her father Gene called it, the “Indian Princess.”

While Gene was happy with her being homeschooled, Tara’s grandmother believed that her grandchildren would be better off getting a normal education.

Gene believed schools were nothing more than a way for the socialist government to brainwash kids and turn them into cogs in the machine. But, one day, Tara’s grandmother came to her with a proposition: tomorrow, at 5 a.m., she was leaving for Arizona and, if she wanted to, Tara could join her and be placed in a school.

Tara thought about it long and hard that night, unable to sleep and plagued with thoughts about her family frantically searching for her. When dawn broke and the clock struck five, Tara decided she would stay with her parents.

Along with his passionate political beliefs, Gene was also deeply religious. Just as he believed in the fulfilling rewards of working hard with his own two hands, he was committed to raising his family as faithful Mormons.

This also meant that Gene believed a woman’s proper place was in the home. And this suited Tara’s mother, Faye, just fine. She was a traditional Mormon woman, devoted to marriage and motherhood, who also worked as an unlicensed midwife for other women in town.

The Westover siblings were left to teach themselves and encouraged each other to go to school.

To say that Tara or her siblings were homeschooled is to stretch the definition of that term pretty thin. When she was four, Tara’s older brother Tony did teach her how to read, and for a few years after that Tara’s mom did teach her children some math and history. But by the time Tara was eight, any pretense of homeschooling had vanished.

At this point, the Westover children were left to educate themselves.

Tara’s first job exposed her to the outside world.

By the time Tara was eleven, most of her brothers, as well as her older sister, Audrey, had left home. And with so many helping hands no longer available, Gene was forced to shift the family business away from farming and toward the junkyard, where Tara helped him scrap old cars for parts.

Even though she was only eleven, Tara could already feel the desire for independence, and that meant finding her own job. So, one day, she hopped on her bike and pedaled her way to the local post office, where she posted a flyer advertising her availability as a babysitter.

Tara’s family had a history of refusing medical assistance and ignoring dangers.

When January 1, 2000, arrived and the world continued as normal, Gene’s faith was badly shaken. So the family took a trip to visit grandma down in Arizona, and the time in the sun seemed to revive his spirits.

However, on the drive back, they hit some bad weather that caused the family van to spin off the road and crash into a field. No one was wearing seatbelts, yet somehow everyone survived – even though Tara lost consciousness for a while.

Tara had to pass the ACT exams before she could be admitted to college.

When Tara was sixteen, she wasn’t sure how college could fit into the life that was being planned for her.

According to what she’d already been told, when Tara was eighteen or nineteen, she’d get married and Gene would provide a corner of their farm where her husband would build the young newlyweds a home. Then she’d learn about herbal healing and midwifery from Faye and have kids of her own.

Arriving at college, Tara felt her otherness and struggled with her coursework.

When she moved to Provo, Utah, Tara didn’t bring many items from home with her – only a dozen jars of canned peaches and a bag of clothes.

The apartment she moved into housed two other students from BYU, and they gave Tara quite a shock.

Faced with health and financial worries, Tara had to learn how to accept help.

During her first semester break, Tara went back home to Idaho, where she had little choice but to work in the junkyard with her father.

Unfortunately, during this break, she woke up one morning with a terrible earache. But this pain proved to be a boon: it taught Tara that some troubles can be avoided by accepting help.

As Tara continued her education, she gained insight into her father’s obsessions, just as he suffered an accident.

By the time Tara was 19 years old, she’d qualified for a student-aid loan and could, for the first time in her life, live comfortably on her own, without financial worries. As a result, she was free to immerse herself in her schoolwork and continue her education.

Naturally, by learning more about the world, Tara was also learning just how twisted her father’s teachings had been.

Tara earned a fantastic research opportunity that led to an even more amazing graduate program.

What Tara had intended to focus on in college was music. But, with each new semester, it became increasingly obvious that her true interests were history and politics; these were the classes that she kept signing up for and looking forward to.

Even her professors noticed how motivated Tara was in class, and one of them finally asked her, “Have you heard of Cambridge?” To which she could only reply, “Nope.”

At Trinity College, Tara finally felt as though she belonged, but troubling news soon came from home.

This time, when Tara returned to England, she was once again amazed upon entering the campus at Trinity College, where every square inch appeared to be both ancient and beautiful. And to make the experience even cooler, this time Tara wasn’t a visitor; she was a graduate student, with her own name written on her own door.

Now, for the first time, Tara began to feel as though there was a place she belonged. She even felt safe enough to work on her social skills and awkwardly introduce herself to enough of the other students until she had a small circle of friends.

While Tara’s studies flourished, her relations with her family deteriorated.

Tara continued to flourish in her research at Trinity College. She was now diving into books on feminism, a term, until that point, she had only heard used in a negative way.

In her upbringing, men were the ones destined to be leaders, while women were the followers whose only roles were child-rearing and preparing meals in the kitchen.

Tara had to make a terrible choice in order to earn her doctorate.

During her PhD research, Tara won a visiting fellowship at Harvard University, but her excitement over this fantastic opportunity quickly soured. Her parents caught wind of Tara’s fellowship and, shortly thereafter, an email arrived that said they’d booked tickets and were going to visit her at Harvard. Not only that – they were planning on staying in her dorm room.

This aggressive move turned out to be their last attempt at controlling Tara, but they’d come to find out she was now too strong to bend to their will.

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Educated (2018) is the memoir of Tara Westover, who grew up in a Mormon family in rural Idaho, and, despite never attending school, was able to earn a PhD from the University of Cambridge. However, she had to pay a high price to achieve her academic dreams. Indeed, she lost her family in the process.

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No one is sure when the author was born. Her mother, father and grandmother recalled different dates.

—Tara Westover

Wer Educated lesen sollte

Readers who love astonishing memoirs
Anyone interested in a peek inside a Mormon family
Teachers and anyone curious about higher education

Über den Autor

Tara Westover was born in 1986, in Idaho. She received a BA from Brigham Young University and was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She completed her PhD in history in 2014 and was also a visiting fellow at Harvard University. Educated is her first book.

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