In education, you can choose to remake yourself -- or be made by others
Because Tara Westover had never been allowed to go to school, the only history she had learned was the history her father taught her. "His perspective was my ...
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AMNA NAWAZ: It's graduation season, and the memoir "Educated" is the may pick for the "NewsHour" Book Club, in collaboration with The New York Times, Now Read This. Its author, Tara Westover, had no formal education until she attended college. The unlikely path that led her there was entirely self-made. Tonight, she shares her Humble Opinion on how an education has very little to do with the schools you attend. TARA WESTOVER, Author, "Educated": During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask, because, until that moment, I had never heard of it. I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institution...
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AMNA NAWAZ: It's graduation season, and the memoir "Educated" is the may pick for the "NewsHour" Book Club, in collaboration with The New York Times, Now Read This. Its author, Tara Westover, had no formal education until she attended college. The unlikely path that led her there was entirely self-made. Tonight, she shares her Humble Opinion on how an education has very little to do with the schools you attend. TARA WESTOVER, Author, "Educated": During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask, because, until that moment, I had never heard of it. I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institution...
