What does Atticus tell Scout about Miss Caroline in To Kill a Mockingbird?

tellsthat she needs to look at
things from Miss Carolines point of view.

Scout is very
excited about starting first grade.  For years she has been watchinggo to school while she has
to stay home and miss all of the fun.  However, school is not at all what Scout expected.  She
gets in trouble almost immediately for being able to read.

[As] I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making
me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from
The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at
me with more than faint distaste. (Ch. 2)

This is very
disturbing to Scout.  She loves reading as much as she loves breathing, and although Miss
Caroline tells her that her father has taught her incorrectly, he actually didnt really teach
her.  She learned to love reading because he loved reading.  She followed along with him as he
read, whatever he happened to read, and soon she could read it too.

When
Scout complains to Atticus that night about her unfair teacher, he tells her that she needs to
learn to see things from Miss Carolines point of view.  Miss Caroline learned as much on the
first day of school as Scout did.

She had learned not to
hand something to a Cunningham, for one thing, but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her
shoes wed have seen it was an honest mistake on her part. We could not expect her to learn all
Maycombs ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better. (Ch.
3)

Miss Caroline is not from Maycomb, which made most of
the children suspicious of her.  She also is a brand new teacher, and very young.  Atticus knows
that there will be a bit of a learning curve for the teacher as well as for her students.  They
will need to get used to her educational strategies, and she will have to get used to their
Maycomb methods.

Scout is actually learning an important lesson in empathy.
 She is young enough to still be figuring out the world.  Atticus is trying to help her
understand that she needs to try to see another person's perspective on things before judging
the person.  Throughout the book, Scout will continue to work on this lesson as she grows
up.