Educated?

Educated is this new, best-seller book by Tara Westover, a Mormon girl born to survivalists in Idaho, who claims she never went to school, and instead helped her mother in her medicinal herbs business and helped her father in his junkyard.

Eventually, and out of sheer determination, she went to BYU Universisty in Provo, Utah, then to Harvard and to Cambridge.

In between, she gives an account of her struggle between the strict upbringing she received and her aspirations.

In my opinion, her story might be somewhat dramatized, if not exaggerated, but it poses the problem of imposing irrational and absurd beliefs and religious doctrine on children, that will have irreparable consequences on their mental development and on the rest of their lives.

In other words, it indirectly questions the ethics, or lack thereof, of educating children religiously and thus creating havoc with their normal self-development.