hard times

            Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education.
             Hard times is set out in three different books: The Sowing; The.
             Reaping; The Garnering. They are named so as it has a special reference to.
             the education and upbringing of children. The titles collectively.
             underlines the basic plot. It suggests that the grounding children.
             received in their formative years would directly affect their adult lives.
             This comes evident as pupils of the Gradgrind system of education is not.
             ready to tackle situations which require imagination or experience in life.
             In Hard Times the two characters that are most affected by the.
             Gradgrind system of education are Tom and Louisa Gradgrind. The Gradgrind.
             system of education is the reason why Tom and Louisa Gradgrind are lacking.
             in imagination and therefore are not ready to tackle every day human life.
             The Gradgrind education system was very common in Victorian times and was.
             probably devised by the many rich powerful people ready to employ the.
             pupils once graduated. As this type of education teaches its pupil's to be.
             a passive unthinking work force, therefore the employers could manipulate.
             their minds, doing whatever they were told. The system forces the pupils.
             to intake pure hard facts, nothing else, therefore not exercising the.
             imagination at all. Leading the pupils to be lost in the surrounding world.
             when a difficult problem requiring experience or maturity arises, as the.
             Gradgrind system of education denies access to this knowledge.