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Wider reading Notes 1

Hard times - Charles Dickens

Education to industry

Private school headmaster . Gradgrind explains how he educates those who attend his school with the theory that

facts aloe are wanted in life ...., and root out everything else

Thomas Gradgrind is described as 'eminently practical"

iterates the victorian view that human nature can be governed

repeats the words facts to the extent that facts becomes a holophrastic phrase for life , success and wellbeing

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eminently practical

Thomas Gradgrind , shows the view than human nature can be governed by rules .The need to behave practically in victorian society

monotonous smoke

discard fantasy

regarded creativity as unuseful in society, children brought up to be conserved an were not free mentally as well as their physical constraints- oppression

Facts alone are wanted in life

assumes and tells children what they want in life - dictatorship

Spectator Ab extract

the labouring class could scarce live a day , if people like us didn't eat , drink and play

idea that lower classes depend on their extravagence

shows a lack of social conscience - borgeoisie perspective

Education

Science