内容简介

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

作者简介

Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for a decad...

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精彩摘录

教育意味着获得不同的视角，理解不同的人、经历和历史。接受教育，但不要让你的教育僵化成傲慢。教育应该是思想的拓展，同理心的深化，视野的开阔。教育不应该使你的偏见变得更顽固。如果人们受过教育，他们应该变得不那么确定，而不是更确定。他们应该多听，少说，对差异满怀激情，热爱那些不同于他们的想法。——塔拉・韦斯特弗《福布斯杂志》访谈

——引自章节：序

283无论你成为谁，无论你把自己变成了什么，那就是你本来的样子。它一直在你心中。不是在剑桥，而是在于你自已。你就是黄金。回到杨百翰大学，甚至回到你家乡的那座从地山，都不会改变你是谁。那可能会改变别人对你的看法，甚至也会改变你对自己的看法一即便是就金，在某些光线下也会显得晦暗，但那只是错觉。金子一直是金子。

——引自章节：卖花女