...here represented as officially testing a school upon its knowledge of his favorite Facts. what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service...

...Drood?' 8. In Mr. Gradgrind'a opening address he says: "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else. Root put everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else...

...con la literatura, la filosofía y la ciencia pura, y que (i) CH. DICKESS, Hard Times (principio) : Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in Ufe !... sólo prepara para el plagio y la mediocridad. Y así es cómo los Estados Unidos y el mismo...

...of discovery and invention in its advance. The One Thing Needful Charles Dickens* 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plants nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...

...economists. Consider the opening words of the novel : — " Now, what I want," says Mr. Gradgrind, " is " Facts, Teach these boys and girls nothing but " Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant 1 Maine, Popular Gorernment, p. I53. Lecture " nothing else, and root out everything else. You XII'...

...Gradgrind, a Utilitarian school teacher, starts the novel with the following words: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." 1 1 The patient in the dentist's waiting room may feel that his reading is totally aimless but it is...

...fact and reality: basic fact and real English. Teachers can follow the injunction of Mr Gradgrind: Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' And descriptive facts about language alone are wanted in language teaching. Teach these boys and girls...

...what a horse is." For Mr. Gradgrind believed in facts. As he told the teacher: "... Now, what I want is. Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone arc wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of...

...wickedly mocked the hardhearted utilitarians who would uproot all poetry from life: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." His lampoon was supremely unjust; for the age, the cult of fact was not a fad but a necessity. Even...

...villain four years later, the schoolmaster Gradgrind. Gradgrind opens the book saying, "Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life . . . You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts." 'Truth, fact, is the life of all...