You should fly to your mountain like a bird

Educated: A Memoir

People only saw my uniqueness: a mountain girl who had never set foot in a classroom before the age of seventeen, now adorned with the glittering title of a degree. Only I knew my true self: I came from a family few could imagine. My childhood was forged in the scrap metal of a garbage dump, where there was no sound of reading, only the roar of cranes. No schooling, no medical care—that was the loyalty and truth my father insisted upon us. He didn't allow us to have our own voices; our will was demonic to him. Harvard, Cambridge, a Master's in Philosophy, a PhD in History... I knew that a girl like me, a simpleton who had crawled from the garbage heap, should be filled with gratitude for achieving what she had. But I lacked the passion to do so. I was timid, overwhelmed by self-doubt. Something rotted within me, a stench that filled the air. Until I escaped the mountains and opened up another world. That was the new world that education had opened to me, the limitless possibilities of my life.

2019-10-01

南海出版公司

New Classic Culture

388

9787544276986