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Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Dangers of Education

Tara's experience of education was dangerous in the sense that some aspects of being opened up to new ideas almost by definition were deeply challenging. Tara: I would be a little anxious about what it would be like to turn up into a university now with the beliefs that I had when I did. But I'm also grateful that there were still a handful of people that I did meet at Cambridge who are willing to engage with me as a human being flawed with my upbringing, she says.

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