When she was a teenager, Tara began to be abused by her older brother Shawn. As Tara recalls, these remedies were almost never effective and they subjected her and her siblings to needless and easily-preventable suffering throughout their childhood.
Hospital visits were simply out of the question. Thus, the family treated colds, sore throats, and even severe cuts, bruises, burns, and concussions with homemade concoctions of lobelia, skullcap, and eucalyptus. He and his wife were committed to homeopathy, alternative medicine practiced in the home.įaye believed herself to be a gifted healer, far more effective than any actual doctor (though she lacked any medical training).
A key part of his religious fundamentalism was his belief that God had provided all the medicine one would ever need in the form of natural herbs. Her father was also deeply hostile to what he termed the “Medical Establishment,” believing that modern medicine was a plot cooked up by the government to poison people. Because of this, Tara had enormous gaps in her knowledge-she barely knew the basics of elementary math and was deeply ignorant on key historical facts about the U.S. There were no tests or exams at Faye’s rudimentary school, and Tara mostly learned to read and write by studying the Holy Bible and the Book of Mormon.
As such, he kept his children out of school and relegated them to a dubious homeschooling curriculum designed by his wife, Faye, who lacked any proper credentials for educating children. Her father, Gene, believed that public schools were a tool of the “socialist” U.S. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of EducatedĮducated is the autobiographical story of Tara Westover’s journey from being the child of extreme anti-government, anti-science, and religious fundamentalist Mormon parents to becoming a Cambridge- and Harvard-educated PhD.īorn in her family’s isolated home in the mountains of Idaho, Tara was denied a proper education as a child.
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