Candide

Candide is arguably a contradictory or paradoxical book: it is about education but remorselessly critical of philosophy (as embodied in Pangloss). Granted as much, we might wonder how the novella aims to educate its readers. Pick an episode that seems a significant learning moment for one or more of the characters and do some analysis. Where and how do we learn? Which philosophical category or categories (i.e., ethics, epistemology, metaphysics) is/are in play? To what effect?