"NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothingbut Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else,and root out everything else. You can only form the minds ofreasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of anyservice to them. This is the principle on which I bri...
In Hard Times (1854), Louisa Gradgrind’s is crushed from the beginning, flattened under the relentless regime of her father’s curriculum of facts. There were no nursery rhymes or childish jingles in her background; she never hears of the “Famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb, and has only been introdu...
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