Education is a small word but it has a big meaning it can change your life and take you to another level and a new world, it teaches you how to communicate with everyone and everywhere, like Malcom X said “ Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” In to kill a mockingbird Scout values education and understands how important it is to be educated, it’s like having a big power. Scout is smart, she reads at a young age and she enjoys doing it even her older brother is proud of her for example he told Dill “Scout yonder 's been reading ever since she was born.” It is important because it means that Scout is naturally smart, curious and loves to learn. And reading motivates her a lot to learn and also she has approval from her dad, for example when Scout came back sad from school because her teacher told her that she should not read with her dad, she told her dad she doesn’t want to go to school anymore because she was devastated but Atticus told her they can still read if she agrees to go to school “ If you concede the necessity of going to school we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have.” That means her dad wanted her to go to school without her being sad and that is important because he motivates her about the thing she loves to do. Reading sometimes makes Scout rude to others for example when Miss Caroline was shocked that her student is literate and she asked her if her dad teached her