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In Hard Times, on what principle is Thomas Gradgrind's teaching style base?
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What is Dickens's purpose in describing Thomas Gradgrind as a "cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts" who will blow his students "clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge"?
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In Hard Times, on what principle is Thomas Gradgrind's teaching style base? Teach boys and girls nothing but facts.
What is Dickens's purpose in describing Thomas Gradgrind as a "cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts" who will blow his students "clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge"? to reveal hatred of Gradgrind's inflexible and close-minded teaching style
In Hard Times, who are the "little pitchers" waiting to be filled with facts? all students
Why does Dickens have Gradgrind refer to Sissy Jupe as "girl number twenty"? to criticize the fact that students in the overpopulated school are treated as numbers, not individuals
What is Dickens's purpose in describing the schoolmasters as being "turned out at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs"? to attack the cold, mechanical nature of the teachers' approach to education
What does Thomas Gradgrind's name suggest? the way he forces his ideas into the heads of his students
In this selection from Hard Times, Charles Dickens is mainly criticizing... schools that smother imagination and treat children like machines.
Why does Dickens write that Mr. Gradgrind is "readyto weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to"? so that the reader will recognize that it is impossible to "weigh and measure" human nature
What is Mr. Gradgrind's opinion of horse riders? He does not approve of them.
What is the purpose of Chapter 1 in the story? The author sets a scene that is boring and uncreative.
What is the author's purpose in describing Bitzer as "so light eyed and light haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him the little color he ever possessed"? to paint Bitzer as a boring, colorless person
Bitzer recites random irrelevant facts about horses to show that... students are being taught irrelevant material.
What is Dickens's opinion of teachers who can answer "volumes of head-breaking questions"? They are not good teachers.
What does Dickens think happens to students who are exposed to only factual learnings? They lose their creativity and individuality.
According to "On Making an Agreeable Marriage," above all other considerations, Jane Austen felt that her niece should marry... a man she liked.
"On Making an Agreeable Marriage" makes it clear that Austen believes her niece is probably... still in love.
"On Making an Agreeable Marriage" might be read as a form of social commentary that... unconsciously reflects social attitudes.
Jane Austen's letter to her niece "On Making an Agreeable Marriage," suggests that she hopes Fanny will... marry well.
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to... criticize society's view of women.
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft felt that women's weakness was... artificial.
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman might be subtitled... A Plea for Better Education for Women.
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft compares women's minds to... flowers planted in soil that is too rich.
According to Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, mistaken notions of female excellence lead women to... behave like children.
Wollstonecraft's purpose in writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was to... persuade readers to accept her point of view.
At the time Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft were writing, women's education tended to focus mainly on ladylike accomplishments.
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