In what sense is Jane Austen's novel Emma an education of its heroine, Emma Woodhouse?

byis a book almost
entirely focused on the education or maturation of Emma Woodhouse, its eponymous heroine. At the
beginning of the novel, Emma is portrayed as a clever and beautiful young woman with generally
good intentions. However, she is lacking in empathy and often overestimates her own abilities
and judgment and often tends to see what she wants to see rather than what is actually the case.
Also, she often accepts her immediate surface impressions and can be superficial in her
estimates of people and values. She also can tend to interfere with the lives of those around
her without understanding the consequences.

Over the course of the novel,
Emma learns greater modesty, humility, and self-restraint, and her eventual marriage
to Knightley suggests that she will grow in moral stature and understanding, having learned from
her unfortunate attempts at matchmaking a degree of wisdom and humility.