发表于2024-12-02
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.
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.
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Educated 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书##Westover家族应该都是天资优秀的,从Tara的父母亲白手起家的生意可见一斑,而且读了书的三兄妹都有很强的主动性和能力,前后纷纷获得PhD (果然学习是阶层流动的上上之选)。更吸引我的是Tara通过学习的过程不断的发现自己:第一部受到家庭暴力,虽然有气愤不甘,却也说不上想要什么。到第二部,当Tara有了历史、心理学的知识,她不仅听从脑子里的想法,还可以理性分析,与自己和解。当无法改变原生家庭,就与他”带病生存”。 对于原生家庭,可能永远逃不开眼界的局限,纵然我们尽可能提供给孩子环境,但是也有一天,他会看到我们的局限性,不过恰恰这是进步的根基。
评分##外网上有一部分读者对这本书争议挺大的。关于就这样把家底子都抖出来是不是合适,关于她家庭的负面内容是不是存在夸大,甚至是不是存在完全的杜撰。但是不管怎么说我还是很喜欢这本书。提供了与主流认知非常不一样的一个成长故事。从我个人的认识来说我觉得这样的成长经历是可能存在的。在美国一些保守地区有可能存在像她父母这样偏执而且反对公共系统的人。 至于要不要把这种经历写出来,面对着和家人全部分裂的风险,的确是个人选择。但是无疑写这样一本回忆录,作者本身肯定也经历了很多纠结痛苦,揭伤疤,最终也许在这个回忆的过程中得到一些反思和升华。这样一个回忆和自我认识的旅程,还是非常有勇气和给人启发的。
评分##这本书再次印证了那句话:教育改变命运。当然,什么样的教育将命运改变成怎样又是另外一回事了。
评分##严重过誉的书。开头描写群山还算有点文学性,后面絮絮叨叨,其实就是讲父母脑残智障、不让上学严重虐待怎么办。1/4弃,后半段在得到听了,体验自我/叙事自我2种写法,消解对世界的决定论和宿命论看法。中译名<你当像鸟飞往你的山>好美。
评分##客观的看待原生家庭的影响,通过教育明白自主选择的自由。
评分 评分 评分##针对factuality的一些accusations, 作者早已在文中给出了交代。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. 从这个角度来说,这个narrative的存在本就构成了某种manifesto of independence, 一种话语权上的抵抗。Content wise, 威权父母和自由鸟子女之间的战争再一次被证明是无法和解的。Westover离开Idaho,跟极少数留学生出逃,本质上的理由和经验是极其相似的
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