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A review by jlkenneth
Educated by Tara Westover
5.0
This is one of the most astonishing memoirs I’ve read, not necessarily about education itself, but about the inexorable process by which knowledge and education overflow to affect everything else.
How do we navigate deep personal change, and what are the costs of growing in our knowledge and worldview? That appears to me to be the greatest question this book explores, especially as it pertains to family and our loved ones. Dr. Westover is precise in her descriptions of painful and traumatic personal experiences, unbelievably gracious toward others who caused her deep pain, relentless in her desire to tell the truth, and delightfully nuanced in her depiction of her shifting beliefs and growing pains. I wanted to weep so many times throughout reading Educated, the story she tells is just so human.
I’ve never seen such an honoring depiction of religious fundamentalism that so acutely depicts and calls out the dangers of such a line of thinking. This is the best book on fundamentalism, and the particular insanities it breeds, I think I’ve ever read.
Could not recommend more strongly (even though I feel I’m the last person to pick this one up).
How do we navigate deep personal change, and what are the costs of growing in our knowledge and worldview? That appears to me to be the greatest question this book explores, especially as it pertains to family and our loved ones. Dr. Westover is precise in her descriptions of painful and traumatic personal experiences, unbelievably gracious toward others who caused her deep pain, relentless in her desire to tell the truth, and delightfully nuanced in her depiction of her shifting beliefs and growing pains. I wanted to weep so many times throughout reading Educated, the story she tells is just so human.
I’ve never seen such an honoring depiction of religious fundamentalism that so acutely depicts and calls out the dangers of such a line of thinking. This is the best book on fundamentalism, and the particular insanities it breeds, I think I’ve ever read.
Could not recommend more strongly (even though I feel I’m the last person to pick this one up).