Hard Times: The Gradgrind System Of Education

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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 education seems to wipe out any chance of
any fiction or fantasy in the minds of the pupils. If Louisa or Tom happen
to even have the slightest hint of fantasy or fiction it would be
immediately be destroyed by their father who was a teacher of facts and
facts alone. This is proved when Louisa and Tom were caught by their
father peeping into a circus ring. When they where caught Mr Gradgrind
immediately told them off, later asking "what can you possibly want to know
about circus shows?” This implies that children shouldn't see the circus
as it doesn't teach you anything. From this we can assume that that the
children studying the Gradgrind system of education can't do the many
things that are enjoyable in ...

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educated person in Hard Times, yet is the
only person to understand Louisa when she decided to marry Bounderby. She
takes pity on her as she sees the petty motive of marrying. This wasn't
taken kindly by Louisa although she knew that she was right. Later on in
the book Sissy makes amends with Louisa, making Louisa feel good when she
admits it was her fault that their relationship got distant over this
matter, which is was not.
Dickens is trying to convey that to be a well rounded person such
as Sissy, does not need the factual requirement of the Gradgrind system of
education, in fact the totally opposite. In Sissy the chance to let her own
imagination wonder when she was just a ...

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