...ENGLISH SCHOOL SOME ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO1 CHARLES DICKENS "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...

...of his school and hurling at them this theory of education. "Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...

...dollar a year, in advance. December, 1921. No. 2. THE EDITOR'S LETTER. "Now, what I want is, Pacts. . .You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts — Stick to Pacts, Sir!" (Dickens. Hard Times, p. 7.) The Editor confessess to a sort of agreement with Mr. Gradgrind,...

...Dickens' defence of fiction starts with fiction's opposite: 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...

...nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing less and root out everything else.You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts. . . . Stick to Facts, Sir. —CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times 23 The view of knowledge and practice we have put forward here has several...

...subject by using her mind and having independence of thought. 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...

...realities. A man of facts and calculations." What Gradgrind wanted, sir, was "Facts." "Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else . . . Stick to Facts, sir! ... In this life, we want...

...others. Positivist Epistemology - The Search for Foundations? 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else . . . stick to Facts, Sir! ... In this life we want...

...spiritual side of life. Victorian readers knew the target when Dickens had Gradgrind say, "Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else." Radicals of various kinds joined the utilitarians...

...Gradgrind in Hard Times stands as chillingly representative: Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plan nothing else and root out everything else ... Stick to Facts Sir!2 Gradgrind's philosophy, as...