I’m that Idaho girl who now has a masters and is pursuing a phd. The audience she was thinking about. She gives me hope.

“I don’t understand the question... but I admire it.”

she is so brilliant. I'm continually awed by her.

I just finished the book. Excellent book and very moving. I saw that her mom now has released "Educating", telling her version of their life.

I can see a movie coming out of the book

Her thoughts on religion and the way her current self approaches Mormonism is really fascinating, and it inspires me as well in a way on how best I should approach the religion that I was born into.

It’s thoroughly amusing to see how Tara makes this supposedly experienced interviewer uncomfortable time and again with her delightful sense of humor. 😏

Tara laughs remember... Educated is a book that enthralled me, it open a part of my brain.Amazing, all Tara's life has been so incredible hard, yet it's taken so 'lightly' at first., then meeting the torture of dealing with her past. Thank you so much. Tara I wish you a path of love, kindness, continued learning and beauty for the rest of your life.

I am so thankful for this talk. Brilliant answers on every subject she’s been asked!

Curious, as to the reasoning why at about 41:45 (or so), the young woman who asks Tara about the Holocaust, Tara's response has been redacted, censored and/or taken out. The question was a legitimate one, and as Tara explains in "Educated," when she was in her BYU class, she was shunned and she felt as if she was an alien, for her ignorance regarding the Holocaust. Accordingly, for Harvard and the Kennedy School to redact or censor Tara's response is unconscionable.

By the way, the scripture that Tara meant to say when she talked about Matthew 11:1 around 50 minutes was actually Hebrews 11:1. And the other scripture she referenced was from the Book of Ether chapter 12 in the Book of Mormon: "Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world ... which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men." Interesting that she still has these verses easily within her recall

She's so incredibly intelligent.

she makes such a good point so many times

I would have liked to hear from the older gentlemen standing next in line to ask a question. I noticed the moderator skillfully excluded him. Tara is a National treasure and she has a voice as well and can sing.

Imagine being Shawn, and seeing your siddle lis all educated and written a book outing your abuse to the whole world.

Good for Tara and wish her well! There are many people who are "heroes" to others - they are not Avatars or Instagram photoshopped personas - they are real people and interacting in real time - which is so important - perhaps far less social media and far more personal interaction! Tara does have a need to show people that she has a "normal" life thus the posted graduation picture to "prove" it. There will come a day when that will not be necessary - to prove to others how "ok" she is.

Why is a part of her answer at 41:49 been cut out? That was an important question and I would have loved to hear her answer.

EDUCATED give me a lot of courage, thanks Tara!

Tara is beyond magical.

lt reminds me of the last scene of Dogville where Nicole Kidman keeps excusing her oppressors by saying that the people of Dogville were doing the best they could under very difficult circumstances.

"StarCraft happened!" i love her

She is the best!💗

The tradegy is not that bad people do bad things, it's what good People dO to keep secrets!!!!

Are we related ???

32:14 the interviewer tries a biased question about how the democrats can reach the ignoramus backwoods northwestern conservatives, and Tara crushes her stupid question. Well done.

I am curious where her brother learned to be so abusive.

I just finish reading the book . It's wonderful to find this talk. By the way , Tara is a beautiful girl , attractive.

Hard to watch- no chemistry. The guest played the ironical "humor me" card and the interviewer wasn't willing to play along. So the first one doubles down on the humor part with the "admit it, I am funny" expressions. Both weren't willing to facilitate a smooth interview.

Starcraft 🤣🤣🤣

I think part of the popularity of Tara's memoir and her views are that they call for tolerance and openness towards the views of rural white Americans (i.e. the people most likely to hold conservative views), but mostly so they can be cured, as she was, of those views, which are sexist, racist and homophobic. There isn't a single issue where she seems to think the conservative view is correct and the liberal view is mistaken. By her own account, the cities are advancing, while the rural areas are declining or stagnating. Is this because some of the liberal policies adopted over the last few decades haven't been that great? She doesn't seem to have any firm views on that subject, or if she does, she doesn't want to tell us what they are.

She has seen a lot lol

A bit too much passive aggressive for me. Just don’t know why and interviewee would mock the interviewer for no reason. Or maybe we don’t know the reason.

No schooling, then gets a Phd, that says something about schools and phds.