Huck Finn's Interventional Education

Huck Finn had a extensive but sometime unconventional education. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Huckleberry Finn the main character, Huck Finn, gets different kinds of education from several people. The first kind of education he gets is formal education. This is regular school type education what that he doesn’t care much for. The second kind of education is his practical education. This is the more common sense type education that he gets from Pap. The last kind of education Huck gets is ethical education. Huck gets a lot of this from Jim. Jim teaches him about right and wrong and how to respect other people’s feelings. When Huck first goes to school he hate it the the Widow Douglass makes him go back to school and then he starts to like it a little bit, then he learns a little bit from going. Huck learns to read by the time Pap and him leave town. So even though he really starts out not liking school he realizes that it has a purpose. He also realizes that the Widow Douglass wants him to go to school because she actually cares about him and she is not just trying to be mean. As a matter of fact, “he has also learned compassion and love from the Widow Douglass.” (2) Pap teaches Huck an important type of …show more content…
“Jim said he reckoned that the Widow Douglass was partly right and that Pap was partly right, so the best way would be for us to pick two three things from the list and say we wouldn’t borrow them anymore.” (1) Huck as taught by Jim what has learned before and combined it with the things he learns. Jim also teaches Huck about superstitions and old wives tales such as “ii’s bad luck if ya touch a rattlesnake.” (1) Jim tells Huck about if catch a bird it cause death, also about if you count the thing you kill for dinner it causes bad luck. “Jim teaches him both lessons that are essential to life and ones that are not true, but amusing and making life interesting.”