Why Is It Wrong To Be Ahead In Your Education

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Is it wrong to be ahead in your education? “Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.”(To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960). Many would agree that being above and beyond in one's education would be a positive thing, but for Jean Finch, also known as Scout, when she was excelling in her education she got in trouble. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, in chapter two it talks about Scout's first day of school. School was staring and on the first day, Scout had a new teacher named Miss Caroline. As a result of Miss Caroline being a new teacher, she taught the way she was told to teach but because Scout already knew how to read, it interfered with her teaching method and therefore Scout got in

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