To Kill A Mockingbird Education Analysis

Education plays a major role in preparing children for post-secondary life; however, many people disagree with education’s implementation in our schools. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the precocious Scout Finch and her struggles with schooling to show flaws in our education system. The reader watches Scout struggle as she questions the educational system and its importance in her life. Lee is then able to use Scout’s negative experience to suggest that the education system is flawed because it does not meet the needs of all learners. Lee uses the negative characterization of the novel’s educators to suggest that the education system is flawed. Scout struggles with Miss Caroline’s ignorance towards Scouts higher ability of learning. Lee shows the education system’s imperfections when Miss Caroline says, “’ Your father does not know how to teach. You may have a seat now’” (Lee 12). By saying this, Lee is stating that Scout’s father interrupted the way that Scout was learning, thus leading Scout in the opposite direction of the way towards success. When Miss Caroline says this, Lee illustrates that teachers aren’t meeting the needs of the students who learn differently, and leading them away from success; she feels that educators are not benefiting students and are doing them a disfavor.
Harper Lee criticizes the educational system throughout the book in order to prove her point that the educational system does not meet the needs of all learners. As the book progresses, she shows the educational system’s flaws through the narrator’s eyes and how it affects her. Lee does this for the hope that later in life, the educational system has developed, and improved. This leaves the reader to glance upon what has been said about the education system, and try to make it more open towards all different type of