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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##希望自己是她,又希望自己不是她。
評分##Give my money back
評分##小時候,幼兒園入學,你哭喊著不願鬆開父母的手,第一次品嘗到分離的哀愁。 轉眼步入大學,卻迫不及待打發掉送你報到的父母,第一次看到自由的光亮。 後來啊,離傢愈久,愈想不起傢的滋味,每一次與父母報喜不報憂的電話之後,都是如釋重負的罪惡感。 是什麼促使瞭這種轉變,是...
評分 評分 評分##Give my money back
評分 評分 評分##還記得高爾基爺爺的人生三部麯的第三部嗎?高爺爺從來沒有上過大學,社會就是他的大學。小時候發現這件事兒的時候一腦門子的不明覺厲。 我想對Tara來講,在傢鄉愛達荷州度過的年月不比在BYU和劍橋的分量輕。也許這是不言而喻的事實。因為使她在眾學生中讓人眼前一亮的正是她站...
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