To Kill A Mockingbird Education Analysis

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All children have their own pace and special way of learning. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee believes that teachers are needed to work with their students to find what works best for each child. Most students are either excelled learners or slow learners, and in the little town of Maycomb, teachers only go one pace. Lee uses Scout, the child narrator’s, point of view throughout the story to give the audience a view through the eyes of a character who is experiencing the school system. Lee believes teachers are the role models and foundation of students’ education, so it is important for them to be more open to what their students need. Harper Lee uses social inequality, Scout’s academic advancement, and the methods of teaching to suggest the school system does not satisfy the need of education for all students. Through Lee’s focus on social inequality, she suggests social disparity plays a big role in the schools in Maycomb and can discourage a student due to where they are ranked in society. Lee shows students that not all children have the resources and time that other students have to others by stating, “the burden of …show more content…

Some of the teachers’ methods do not involve working with the students to assist them in their education. Miss Gates, Scout’s teacher in elementary school, required that every student clip an item from the newspaper that had a current event on it. To Scout, “the idea was profound, but as usual, in Maycomb it didn’t work very well” (Lee 207). Not every child in Maycomb had access to newspapers, so they had to use the Grit paper. Miss Gates always frowned upon the Grit paper and did not approve of it. Teachers never got the idea that not every child had access to the materials needed for class. Lee believes it is important for a teacher to help a child with their weaknesses so they can

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