Dickens & education in Hard Times Essay

In Hard measure we see two versions of the world of education. The first spatial relation is that of Thomas Gradgrinds and his model school. A place where facts are valued and imagination is regarded as unimportant. This is the utilitarian watch out. The second view is contrasted with the utilitarian view and is that of Mr Slearys circus. This is a place with much intimacy valuing both imagination and education. A place without the riches of the Gradgrinds but much in humanity. This is the creative world. I think deuce is telling us that thither are many distinct ship canal of bringing up and educating children.It is about getting the mature balance surrounded by education and imagination. For example fairy was brought up by her set out and didnt go to school but was quite well improve as she used to sound out to him, but her get under ones skin let her use her imagination as she read the wrong books from Gradgrinds point of view. Which were about Fairies and the croo kback and the Genies. moreover when she went to Gradgrinds house to live there she was cut off from having an imagination, as so was attempt to learn facts. The reader knows this as Sissy says, I am O so stupid when unfeignedly she isnt stupid at all, it is just that she has been oblige to be brought up the utilitarian steering, which is the wrong focussing for her, as she is used to having a balance between education and imagination but Gradgrind hasnt al first-class honours degreeed it. She became low spirited, but no wiser. This is because she has an emotional memory and so she cant learn the facts because she is being taught with a utilitarian view and so she cant attach a feeling to what she is being taught. This is how daemon implies that different people learn different slipway and at different rates.For Gradgrind it could be argued that it was the right way for him as he was educated by his father the utilitarian way. He became a model student and owned a schoo l. The reader knows that he was a model pupil as Dickens tells us five young Gradgrinds were models every(prenominal)one. And They had been lectured at from their tenderest years. And in Gradgrinds eyes this had worked so He intended every child to be a model. But what Gradgrind doesnt realise is that all children are different and need to be brought up different ways, which is what Dickens is suggesting to the reader.