Educated is a bestselling 2018 memoir by Tara Westover about her journey from a survivalist family in rural Idaho, where she received no formal education, to earning a PhD from Cambridge University. The book chronicles her struggle to reconcile her quest for knowledge with her isolated upbringing, detailing her first classroom experience at 17, her self-taught path to college, and the profound transformation education brought to her life, while also exploring themes of family, identity, and abuse.