Can you imagine a girl who never went to university before the age of 17, one day becoming a PhD student at Cambridge University? She is Tara Westover, and this book is her autobiography. It was a book specially recommended by Bill Gates and topped the New York Times bestseller list for 8 weeks. "You should fly like a bird to your mountain" is the Chinese translation, and the English name is very concise and concise: "educated", which means education.

This book tells the story of how the author lived a difficult life in a family that favored boys over girls in the mountains from the moment he could remember it, and finally became a doctorate at Cambridge University and finally reconciled with himself. She had not dared to mention her past to others until she later understood, as she said: No matter who you become, no matter what you turn yourself into, that is who you are. After reading this book, you will deeply discover: the power of education!

一

Your origin cannot change your future

Due to the indoctrination of her parents since childhood, Tara has always regarded hospitals, schools, etc. as scary. I have never thought about the world outside the mountains. I feel that working with my father is the safest and my only future. My destiny has already been determined. Until one day, her brother Taylor told her that there was a world outside the mountains, a world that was different and could change everything. This planted a seed in her heart and gave her the idea of ??going out. This leads to the opening sentence of this book: dedicated to Taylor.

Think about us now, even if the teaching environment is limited, there are so many learning courses online. If you can barely get into a junior college, you can still go from junior college to bachelor's degree, as long as you work hard. Nowadays, there are so many children coming out of the mountains. Your origin cannot change your future.

2

Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb.

You may be wondering, how did she go from knowing nothing to becoming a Ph.D. from a prestigious university? This is what I think is the wonderful second half of the book. When Tara finally relied on her own little effort to study and entered the only university that did not require high school experience, she felt that she was out of place until much later. , she felt that she could belong to this place.

Because her learning experience is too limited, she cannot understand many of the courses taught by the teacher, and she does not know how to use the answer sheet during the exam. However, Tara had a strong desire to acquire knowledge, and she worked harder than ordinary people. In the end, her grades finally improved.

Three

Reconciling with Oneself

Even if Tara went to college, every time she came home for vacation, she would feel that she was still the same person in the mountains. A worker who works in a scrap factory and helps his father. She didn't dare to talk about her childhood to outsiders, didn't dare tell them that she never went to high school, and didn't dare to say that the reason why she didn't take medicine or go to the hospital when she was sick was because her father felt that doctors were part of a government conspiracy. She feels that her background is not worthy of her current degree, which is why every time she looks in the mirror, she sees the 16-year-old girl working in the scrap factory, which is her former self.

Until the end, she finally reconciled with herself, accepted herself as a child who was not outstanding or even unworthy, and accepted her past and present. At the end of the article, when she looked in the mirror, the girl left her and was sealed in the mirror.

"From that moment on, the decisions I made were no longer decisions she would have made. They were decisions made by a changed person, a new self."

Reconciliation with her parents

Tara has listened to her parents since she was a child, and even when she went to college, she followed the lifestyle her parents taught her. It wasn't until her knowledge became richer and richer through studying and consulting information that she discovered that the laws of the world created by her father had been broken one by one. She couldn't believe that so many of them were false and fabricated! It took her a long time to accept this fact, and she even went to confront her father. Only then did she realize that she could not solve her father's one-sided and stubborn ideas due to poor knowledge. When I realized I was sick and lying in bed, I finally took erythromycin after being persuaded by my roommate. She lay in bed, feeling ridiculous that her parents told her not to take medicine when she was sick.

Later, her parents felt that she was already on the verge of death and had serious sins. She needed to be blessed and baptized by a priest, and they wanted to take her home forever. Tara had no power to fight against her parents and almost gave in. However, she blurted out: "I love you, but I can't, I'm sorry dad."

How many years did this rejection bring? His father will never see him again. Tara felt deeply guilty that she had become a highly educated person while her parents still lived in the mountains. She did not even have the chance to see her parents, and other family members also obeyed her father's words and refused to associate with her. How many times did Tara ask herself: Is it worth all the effort she had to get an education that cost her her loved ones?

Many years later, Tara finally reconciled with her father in her heart. She knew that this was how she loved her parents. Completely obeying her parents was not the only way to express herself. She chose to live her own life well. .

Seeing this, I couldn't help but think of my father who sometimes felt stubborn, but was unable to change. Maybe what I can do is, like Tara, to reconcile with my parents in my own way.

The actual content of this book is far better than what I wrote. I hope everyone can take a look