The informal education of Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird prepares her for life and motivates her to keep learning. Through her daily experiences at home or in town, she is able to learn the judicial system, prejudice, hypocrisy, respect, friendship, courage, and the true value of people. Atticus and Miss Maudie affect Scout’s in formal education because they help her learn things on her own by experiencing things. Atticus rarely tells Scout what to do when she’s gotten in trouble. He tells her to figure it out. Miss Maudie teaches her about people. That you don’t know where everyone comes from or what they are like until you get to know them. “‘First of all,’ he said ‘ if you can learn a simple trick…’” (Lee 33) Atticus taught Scout that everyone …show more content…
I remember Arthur Radley…’” Miss Maudie is explaining to Scout that you shouldn’t judge people that you don’t know and have never met by rumors you hear about them. She tells Scout that he was once a very nice man and he still might be, but that he also might have changed. Miss Maudie has affected Scout by telling her that no one knows what Arthur Radley is like because no one has seen him in years and it’s not good to make assumptions on someone that no one really knows. Scout now realizes that she might have been all wrong about Arthur Radley the whole time. That he might be a different person then what she thinks he’s like. “Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. ‘You are too young to understand it,’ she said ‘but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of -- oh, of your father.’”(Lee 60) This quote is saying that some people live their life the way the bible tells them too. And that some men who live by the bible are more dangerous than Atticus if he were to drink until he puked. Miss Maudie affects Scout’s informal education by saying that men are dangerous weather if they are drunk or not and that Scout needs to be safe when she’s walking around