What did "Educated" taught me?

The memoir of Tara Westover was incredibly interesting. When I first started reading, I felt like it wasn’t going to be something that I was going to get into and appreciate simply because it’s a memoir. Despite my feelings, I tried to read the book with no judgments or bias, and with all honesty, it was a hard task. I made some assumptions and many opinions, some of which were quite harsh, about Tara’s family and her way of dealing with every situation occurring in her life. Her family is what struck me the most in this journey. Gene’s idolization of religion has made him so ignorant and…