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3 quotes from Educated

• "You can take the girl out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the girl."
• "The irony of education is that it is often the educated who are the last to know how hard it is to find the truth."
• "I should have been grateful for the opportunity to learn, but all I could feel was the weight of the world on my shoulders."

Author: Tara Westover

Tara Westover is an American author currently residing in the UK. Raised in rural Idaho in a family that rejected formal education, she spent her childhood working in her father's junkyard and assisting her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. It wasn't until she was seventeen that she stepped into a classroom for the first time, igniting a fervent pursuit of knowledge that would span a decade. Westover earned her BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and went on to receive a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She completed her MPhil at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009 and served as a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010. In 2014, she returned to Cambridge to obtain her PhD in history.