To Kill A Mockingbird: Life Lessons of Jem and Scout In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout learn a lot but not from school, they learn a lot of life lessons through out the book, I will tell you about some of them. One life lesson that Jem and Scout learn is that you cant judge something by the way it looks on the outside, they learned that you have to look in side to find out what someone is really like. They learned this when they were getting attacked by Mr. Ewell, Boo Radley came and saved the both of them which showed them that Boo was no