To Kill A Mockingbird Education Analysis

Many people believe that education is the most important tool that a child needs to make great changes in the world. While one part of the society thinks that way, the other part of society thinks that character is the real foundation that every kid needs to be successful in life. Education consumes a considerable component in children’s live. In this book there are many allusions about education in the lives of Jem and Scout. Jem learns about all kinds of things at school, and he also learns valuable lessons from Atticus. On the other hand, Scout finds some of the teacher’s methods such as the to be pretty useless which makes her not want to go to school anymore, but at the same time she learns valuable lessons from Atticus which becomes her main

First, Harper Lee portrays the fact that the educational system in Maycomb County is unreliable in a very critical and condescending way. Scout was very excited about the idea of finally being able to go to school, but her first day proves to be a major disappointment. Her teacher, Ms. Caroline Fisher, is 21 years old and she is new to the Maycomb County school district. Miss Caroline Fisher doesn’t understand the ways of Maycomb County because she is from a more cultured and richer part of northern Alabama. In the beginning of the day, Ms. Fisher reads a reads a story about cats, and Scout explains that, “ Miss Caroline seems unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature” (Lee 22). In this quote Miss Fisher represents the education system as a whole. Both of them are unaware of their powerlessness. Most of the