Tara Westover Education

In society, education opens doors to new opportunities in life. Education has and continues to give those willing to learn the ability to have many choices and opportunities, such as the freedom to evolve outside of parental influence, the right to choose, strong self-mastery, and critical thinking. In literature, throughout history, research, and people’s opinions, this is displayed. Specifically, it is exhibited in Educated by Tara Westover, a memoir written about her childhood experiences in a Mormon survivalist family as they prepare for the world to collapse. As Westover was raised, it was with no education, making her life mainly consist of helping her mother with her herbal medicine and midwifery, and working in her father (Gene Westover’s) …show more content…
Due to this decision, her already unpleasant dynamic at home became worse, which ultimately forces her to choose between her family and her education. It is also seen in Munakata Yuko’s presentation during a Ted Talk on child development, which shows the negative influence a parent’s choices can have on their children, including preventing them from having an education. Along with parental influences, many people limit other’s right to choose. Restricting one’s right to choose, especially involving the desire for an education, has been seen throughout history long after slaves were freed, and later when African Americans gained the ability to attend schools after the Civil War (1861-1865). But before this, many circumstances of rejection have been shown, specifically in political cartoons. This political cartoon shows a black woman and her two children trying to enter a school, while being rejected by a white man who is letting white children inside (Anti-Slavery Almanac). By rejecting them, he is rejecting the children of many skills and opportunities, including the skills of self-mastery and critical

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