This novel presents a system of education that preaches that the one thing needful is Facts. The founder of this system marries his daughter Louisa to a bounder who constantly tells lies about how awful his youth was. The educator repudiates his system when she suffers a nervous breakdown. Further evidence of the system's f
This novel presents a system of education that preaches that the one thing needful is Facts. The founder of this system marries his daughter Louisa to a bounder who constantly tells lies about how awful his youth was. The educator repudiates his system when she suffers a nervous breakdown. Further evidence of the system's failure comes when his son robs the bank, and frames a factory worker named Stephen Blackpool, who had been ostracized by the other workers for refusing to join their strike. FTP, name this novel by Dickens.
This novel presents a system of education that preaches that the one thing needful is Facts.
{Hard Times}