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.
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 decade. She graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.
我第一次踏上美国,是在八月份炭烤的天气中,肯尼迪机场的短暂停留之后,西南部亚利桑那州的沙漠里。 选校时,因为经济状况,很现实地去了能给最多奖学金的学校。坐落在凤凰城外贫穷的suburb, 被周围低矮房屋包围的,是一所号称排名第一的国际商学院,同学们来自50个国家。因...
評分(本文作者:比尔·盖茨) 我总是对我自学的能力沾沾自喜。一旦发现自己对某事一知半解,我就会读一本教科书或看一节网上课程,直到弄明白为止。 我自以为很擅长自学,但塔拉·韦斯特弗的《你当像鸟飞往你的山》(Educated)改变了我的想法。我的自学能力在她面前不值一提,所...
評分 評分 評分终于听完这本,文笔非常非常厉害,敏感细腻又reflective。个人自传,并且成长经历绝对称得上独特,这也是为什么这本书如此好看。但同时也很容易让人relate 起来。很难想象书中那么敏感和多思的女孩是如何经受住了种种摧残和洗脑后不但没有被damaged, 反而blossom 了。 很复杂,...
這本書再次印證瞭那句話:教育改變命運。當然,什麼樣的教育將命運改變成怎樣又是另外一迴事瞭。
评分針對factuality的一些accusations, 作者早已在文中給齣瞭交代。The important thing is to construct HER narrative out of her past, NOT relying on someone else's recount. It is precisely HER interpretation that matters. 從這個角度來說,這個narrative的存在本就構成瞭某種manifesto of independence, 一種話語權上的抵抗。Content wise, 威權父母和自由鳥子女之間的戰爭再一次被證明是無法和解的。Westover離開Idaho,跟極少數留學生齣逃,本質上的理由和經驗是極其相似的
评分我能理解美國人喜歡看這種勵誌故事 但是故事本身和文筆實在讓人看不下去 通篇的I&my 敘事流水賬
评分我也經曆過被傢庭控製-痛苦-educated-建立新自我-疏遠傢庭的過程,但我無法産生共情,因為作者是一個沒唱過歌但一唱就能當音樂劇主唱,沒上過學靠自學就一路去劍橋的天纔。到大學藝術史課布置瞭reading,作者竟然隻看瞭圖片,還找藉口說她不知道也要看字,excuse me? 而且如果真的尊重知識好奇求知,不知道要看也會忍不住想看吧?這樣的作者,寫齣瞭劍橋教授三十多年教學經驗見過的最好的論文,很久沒工作被導師警告可能畢不瞭業重新工作立刻一舉寫齣導師稱贊的博士論文順利畢業,頂著這樣的天纔光環,那我還能說什麼呢。作者以前有多不幸和之後有多幸運並不吸引人,重要的是那些過程中的感受、掙紮、思考和蛻變,但比例上前者太多瞭,後者太少瞭,淪為不打動人的獵奇流水賬。垃圾場部分有一堆生詞,無聊又讀起來費勁
评分說實話沒覺得好震撼,覺得是個dramatic story。現在特彆想讀Dr. Jonathan Steinberg評價說是他在劍橋讀過的最好的論文那篇文章。
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