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Being in first grade most people will believe that they are not educated. Some people are gifted with abilities that other people find hard to do. Scout is one of those people. She has an ability to read well for the grade that she's in. After Mrs. Caroline, her first grade teacher, realized this advancement with literature they had a bit of conflict. Mrs. Caroline had a "new" way teaching that year and Scout being more advanced, didn't follow that "new" way of teaching. Mrs. Caroline's way was probably to have everyone on same track. No one behind and no one ahead. It's probably easiest to teach that way. Mrs. Caroline then tells Scout that her father has to stop teaching her but, Scout takes it as an insult. It's hard for Mrs. Caroline to
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Scout faces her beautiful teacher’s arbitrary accusations, beginning her education in Miss Caroline’s bad graces. Scout describes the incident, saying, “I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste” (Lee, 18). Following Miss Caroline’s realization of Scout’s literacy, the teacher commanded her to inform her father not to teach her to read anymore. Scout felt betrayed and hurt because she loved reading and did not think that being educated was wrong despite Miss Caroline’s disdain for it. Education has endured as one of the most valuable assets a person can have, especially at a young age, and Miss Fisher’s antipathy toward it proves

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