What is Lee’s intent in To Kill a Mockingbird by having Scout say:“…As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine...

Simply put, Scout was bored with school. Scout was already well
ahead of her classmates when she entered the first grade, having learned how to read at an early
age and knowing how to write cursive. She got off on the wrong foot with Miss Caroline on the
first day, and apparently things got no better. She didn't understand the importance of "Group
Dynamics" or the "Dewey Decimal System." (Actually, Jem had gotten it all wrong when he told
Scout that Miss Caroline's new system of teaching was the Dewey Decimal System. The DDS is a
method for coding library books, named after Melvil Dewey; Miss Caroline was actually implying
the education reform taught by John Dewey.) She thought the "miles of construction paper and wax
crayon" were a waste of time. Reading books were apparently not on Miss Caroline's agenda
(probably because few of the other kids could read), and Scout could not understand this--even
Jem, who was educated on a "half-Duncecap basis," could not be stopped from "getting at books."
Scout had expected so much out of school before she got there, but after experiencing it, she
could only envision "twelve years of unrelieved boredom."