Educating: A Memoir

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Observing people around me, it seemed that university degrees actually helped very few people in our community. Educating Alice is the only puppy book available in the UK that is based on the real-life training of a real puppy.

One of the cringiest things to read was her trying to explain why being engaged before Val served a mission was God given. He welcomes visitors and tends to company business, pausing to put a casserole in the oven for anyone who might be around come lunchtime. Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of film education in Britain, Europe and the United States. With activism positioned as an essential anti-bureaucratisation force and ingredient for agnostic pluralism, more connections between formal schooling and activists would further enhance education for the Anthropocene.

At the end of the memoir, Westover is in touch with only a few family members and accepts that she needs to be away from the mountain. They show few visible signs of scarring, although Luke hikes up a pant leg to show me the little scarring that does remain. When I was going through that experience, I became aware of how important stories are in telling us how to live — how we should feel, when we should feel proud, when we should feel ashamed. And the Westover family stands out for the fact that Tara’s mother, LaRee, decided to publish her own memoir, with the in-your-face title “ Educating,” aimed at telling her side of things.

She was the child who survived abuse and neglect in the remote mountains of southern Idaho, who scrabbled her way out of nonexistent “home schooling” to BYU, to Cambridge, to Harvard, to a doctoral degree to a book on The New York Times bestseller list for more than two years, to gripping interviews with Oprah and Ellen.What followed is retold in three different versions, from Tara, her parents and their lawyer Blake Atkin.