...Mr McChoakumchild, to the task of stuffing full of facts his classroom of nameless, numbered pupils: Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will be of any service to...

...Comparative Epistemology of Animals 3.1 Reasoning Animals: On the Truthfulness of Literature and Science "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts". Those are the words of the horrible teacher...

...doom it to outright failure. Dickens's Hard Times opens with the crusty Thomas Gradgrind announcing, "Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts." Literary satire became LDS counsel in...

...The novel begins by bombarding the reader with Gradgrind's thundering words: "Now, what I want are facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Gradgrind does not perceive the possibility that his words have another meaning: "facts" about life...

...the form of facts. Mr Gradgrind in Dickens' Hard Times (1891) makes this viewpoint brutally obvious: "Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." This philosophy is expounded at length by the fearsome school master, but even he eventually comes...

...DICKENS 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are what are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service...