Everything I needed to know I learned from 'To Kill a Mockingbird"

If you don't mind, here are some of the lessons I learned while teaching this novel for 32 years. 

1. "If you can learn a simple trick, you'll get along a lot better with all kind of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.step into their shoes and walk around for a while."

2. "It's not okay to hate anyone."

3. "Our courts are the Great Levelers."

4. "There is evil in the world, Son. I'd like to keep it from you, but that's not possible."

5.“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself."

6. “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”

7. "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."

8. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

9. “This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.”

10."Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."