Tara Westover was born in rural Idaho. She studied history at Brigham Young University and upon graduation was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She received an MPhil in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and a PhD in the same subject in 2014.
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Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in hospitals.
As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.
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低于预期吧,主要是有些书评捧得太狠了。 之前看了比尔盖茨的书评,让我以为这本书是一本可以教我们如何自学的书(或者起码给一些启发)。毕竟作者从未上过小学和中学,第一次上课时17岁,最后拿到了剑桥的PhD,但事实上却并非如此。 感觉这本书其实不是关于我们通常所说的教育...
评分 评分##*视频搬运说明 Tara Westover,《Educated-你当像鸟飞往你的山》作者: 塔拉•韦斯特弗 Tara Westover,美国历史学家、作家。1986年生于爱达荷州的山区。十七岁前从未上过学,通过自学考取杨百翰大学,2008年获文学学士学位。随后获得盖茨剑桥奖学金,2009年获剑桥大学哲学硕...
评分 评分 评分##小时候,幼儿园入学,你哭喊着不愿松开父母的手,第一次品尝到分离的哀愁。 转眼步入大学,却迫不及待打发掉送你报到的父母,第一次看到自由的光亮。 后来啊,离家愈久,愈想不起家的滋味,每一次与父母报喜不报忧的电话之后,都是如释重负的罪恶感。 是什么促使了这种转变,是...
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