How Does Huck Finn Get An Education

Is school the only place a person can get an education? Most people would say yes, but in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character is educated in different ways. Huck gets an unconventional education from Jim, Pap, and also Tom throughout the story. First of all, Huck is educated by the slave Jim. At one point in time Tom gets shot in the leg and Jim has an opportunity to run and be free. Instead Jim says, “Well,den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz him dat ’uz bein’ sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he day, ‘Go on en save me, nemmine ‘bout a doctor f’r to save di one’? Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he day dat? You bet he wouldn’t! Well den, Jim gwyne say it? No, sah---I doan’ budge a step out’n dis place ’dout a doctor; not if it’s forty years ” (Twain p.276). Huck learns that when the slave wanted to run free choose not to run off, but the slave insisted to stay and help the white boy and trying to take care of him. Huck learns about compassion and caring for someone who needs help. Jim teaches Huck a moral and sensible lesson about compassion.
Huck was trying to get around to borrow items that he could replace, Huck also tried to say that he would try to borrow and hide them so he would get caught. Instead Huck says. “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back sometime; but the widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing , and no decent body would do it” (Twain 63-66-70). Huck learns that when you borrow an item that you have to give the item back or eventually tell the truth about stealing the item from the owner. Huck has to act that he did not steal any items from the owner and also that he has to find away to scare off the owner from inside their house or outside their home so that Huck can place the items that he has