How can Emma be considered a novel of education?

The
education ofWoodhouse constitutes an importantperhaps the most importantelement in the story.
The prominence of the theme can be seen at the start of the book, where we're given a detailed
description of Emma's educational background.

Education in relation to Emma,
however, is not just academic; it relates to her induction into polite society, with its
bewildering array of conventions that govern relations between men and women. As a woman in
Regency England, Emma is not expected to be academically gifted; she is,...