These are the best quotes from the book Educated by Tara Westover.
Educated is a memoir by Tara Westover. It’s the tale of a little girl who grew up in a small, secluded home with little interaction with the outside world. In reality, she began her academic career when she was 17 years old, and she went on to explore the world and get a Cambridge degree. This book will completely transform the way you think about schooling.
Quotes from Educated by Tara Westover
Education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.
I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.
I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine.
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness.
I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.
The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time.
Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.
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Journaling is contemplative, and I didn’t want to contemplate anything.
To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both.
I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.
Curiosity is a luxury for the financially secure.
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family.
I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him.
This seemed so obvious to me now, it was difficult to understand why I had ever believed anything else.
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Even gold appears dull in some lighting, but that is the illusion. And it always was.
I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness.
He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.
It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, I had written in my journal.
We are all more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.
But I understood this one fact: that a thousand times I had been called Nigger, and laughed, and now I could not laugh.
He can’t explain where the conviction came from, or how it burned brightly enough to shine through the black uncertainty.
All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere?
It is painful to face reality, she wrote. To realize there was something ugly, and I refused to see it.
Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it education.
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It’s strange how you give people you love so much power over you…he had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.
To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both.
I didn’t think I was dreaming, but only because my imagination had never produced anything so grand.
The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.
