Education is everything in the average person's life, and it shows up everywhere, even in places you wouldn't expect to find it. Education is important to life in today's average society because if you don't have an education you would most likely not get a high paying job or you wouldn't get any job at all because education is needed for almost everything. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The education in Maycomb is shown by many people and is interpreted by Scout, Jem and Dill in many ways, although in most cases it is imperfect and sometimes in reverse. Other ways education is taught in the book are moral; school and through their dad who had a great effect on scout through the book. Once the scout reaches the minimum age to go to school, she thinks school will be great and easy but when she arrives she knows it will be exactly the opposite when she finds out a new teacher is teaching her. Ms. Caroline only teaches in her own way which makes the education system flawed as most students learn in different ways and not just the way a teacher thinks his students should learn. Mrs. Caroline says, “Your father doesn't know how to teach. Now you can sit down." (Lee, 17 years old). This is said on Scout's first day at school. This shows that Mrs. Caroline's way of teaching discriminates against the way Scout learned to read. Mrs. Caroline he is narrow-minded when it comes to teaching and does not understand the customs of the small town. He also does not know that the children are intelligent and that they are used to a harsher environment, which leads to not teaching the children any education throughout the book. .This means that throughout the book little is taught to Scout at school, but mostly by his father and his surroundings. Gettin...... middle of the paper ......because it shows that Scout is starting to get older and more and more mature unlike many other boys in Maycomb. Throughout the book Scout, Jem and Dill learn and become more mature as the book goes on, where education plays a big role in that role as they know more, they begin to know people as they really are and not as stereotypes. They start to become more mature like most people in Maycomb since they start hanging out with blacks more than whites. This shows that they have not moved on to racism. This is like most things the average person goes through in life. Once you learn more about the world, you start to become more mature and aware of what is happening, which makes you smarter than before. Also, as you start to become more aware and intelligent, you see people as they really are, not as they seem, as shown in To Kill a Mockingbird..