Please write about Emma's education in Emma.

is, in part, a critique
of upperclass women's education. More than one scholar has
traced Mary
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, a
work
which argues for better education for women, as a source for Austen's
novel.

Emma is educated by her governess, Miss Taylor,
who, as the novel opens, has married
and become Mrs. Weston. Miss Taylor is a
kind-hearted woman, but acts more as a companion than
authority figure to her
motherless charge.

We learn that Emma draws up many
plans
for diligently pursuing reading, but never follows through on them. She can read
and
write, paint and play the piano, but she has never been disciplined
enough in any of these
activities to do them well. The novel implies that
Emma's haphazard education contributes to her
half-baked attempts at
matchmaking. Bored and half-educated, she makes what could have been
serious
trouble for Harriet Smith with her interference, except that, like in
A
Midsummer Night's Dream, which Emma misquotes, the
story is a...