In Hard Times, Charles Dickens criticizes Mr. Gradgrind’s school for trying to suppress all of the following except literal thinking. Option C is correct.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is considered by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Mr Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's novel Hard Times who aimed to the pursuit of profitable enterprise.