Question

What does the passage imply about children and learning?

Hard Times
by Charles Dickens (excerpt)
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the
speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring
every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve. The emphasis was
helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for
its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves,
overshadowed by the wall...
The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders,
-nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an
unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, -all helped the
emphasis.
"In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!"

Answer 1

The passage implies that children and learning should be centered around facts.

Step-by-step explanation:

The passage implies that in the speaker's opinion, children and learning should be focused primarily on facts. The speaker emphasizes the importance of facts by underscoring every sentence and by his square appearance. This suggests a rigid and uncompromising approach to education, where the teacher values factual knowledge above all else.

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