Hard Times: The Gradgrind System Of Education
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Hard times is set out in three different books: The Sowing; The
Reaping; The Garnering. They are named so as it has a special reference to
the education and upbringing of children. The titles collectively
underlines the basic plot. It suggests that the grounding children
received in their forma ....
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.... teaches its pupil's to be
a passive unthinking work force, therefore the employers could manipulate
their minds, doing whatever they were told. The system forces the pupils
to intake pure hard facts, nothing else, therefore not exercising the
imagination at all. Leading the pupils to be lost in the surrounding world
when a difficult problem requiring experience or maturity arises, as the
Gradgrind system of education denies access to this knowledge.
The Gradgrind system of educa ....
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