How is the role of education described in To Kill a Mockingbird? Also talk about the lack of education of black people and formal education of Scout.

The
role of education in is complex.

Learning vs. Schooling

In many ways,
education is seen as vital to a meaningful life. As a lawyer,has more education than the vast
majority of Maycomb. In the first years of his working life, Atticus then pays for his younger
brother's education in medicine, as well. Both Finch brothers are presented as good,
intelligent, progressive .

Informal education is vital to 's development. She
is said to have been a reader "since she was born" and lives for her nightly reading
sessions with Atticus. Calpurnia (who Scout describes as "more educated" than most
"colored folks" in Maycomb) teaches Scout to write before she even begins school,
making writing an integral part of Scout's early childhood.

Conversely, many
of the more negatively portrayedhave refused education. The Ewells are notorious for refusing to
attend school, and thus are illiterate as well as mean and antisocial.

Counterintuitively, however,