"Don't you teach your children to wash after they use the toilet?" Grandma said.
Dad shifted the truck into gear. As it rolled forward he waved and said, "I teach them not to piss on their hands.Tara Westover, Educated (New York: Random House, 2018), p. 53
In retrospect, I see that this was my education, the one that would matter: the hours I spent sitting at a borrowed desk, struggling to parse narrow strands of Mormon doctrine in mimicry of a brother who'd deserted me. The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.Tara Westover, Educated (New York: Random House, 2018), p. 62
