Education-P4

=__Education__= A. Catalan A. Allison Per. 4

__**Huck:**__ The way they spoke demonstrated that he didn't have much of an education. Education that Huck gets is drawn from his experiances that he has gained through his life. He is more "street smart" than "book smart," he knows how to deal with certain situations and how to fix them, by using the knowledge from past experiances. Even though the Widow Douglas does her best to give him a good education. Huck is more intrested in learning through experiances than from books. Through the novel Huck starts to realive how valueable education is and starts to value it more by the end of the novel.
 * **"After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers" (chapter 1)**

__**Jim**__ The African American people weren't educated for many reasons, one of which was their masters didn't want them to know how bad they were being treated, so they wouldn't stop working for them or try to fight against them. Like Huck, Jim gaines his education from experiances he has witnesses first hand.
 * **"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin." (ch 2)**

__**Tom**__ Tom gets most of his ideas from books that he has read, unlike Huck and Jim he is more "book smart" than "street smart". Even though he would like to gain his knowledge from books, he doesn't value formal education. Most of the choices he uses he gets the ideas from stories he has read. in a way he makes it seem as if he uses his education in selfish ways, when it is at others expences.
 * **"Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it." (chapter 2)**