...of 19th-century English schooling, remarkably like the one new teachers will face in modern America: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only torm the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever he of any service...

...the model school. Hard Times was originally published in 1854. Chapter One — The One Thing Needed "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: nothing else will ever be of any service...

...indictment of all that is cold, mechanistic, rationalistic, and utilitarian in the society of that day: 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 ever be of any service...

...of the character in Charles Dickens's book Hard Times, Gradgrind, who admonishes a younger teacher: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented...

...same cultural movement as Dickens's critique of utilitarianism in Hard Times ("Now what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else"). Vet the writer whom Sand undoubtedly had most in mind, when she wrote her celebrated sentence, was...

...Charles Dickens began his novel Hard Times with Thomas Gradgrind enunciating his singular testament: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Pacts: nothing else will ever be of any service...

...suspicion — but numbers don't lie. As Mr. Gradgrind says in the opening of Charles Dickens's Hard Times: 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 ever be of any service...

...'Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!' said Mr Gradgrind, for CHAPTER I The One Thing Needful '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: nothing else will ever be of any service...

...preparing to learn throughout their lives, just as is being described in Discover Your Hidden Talents. Facts alone 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...

...preparing to learn throughout their lives, just as is being described in Discover Your Hidden Talents. t Facts alone 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...