The Cream Of The Crop
The purpose of an education is to provide students with a knowledge base that will enable them to achieve their goals. Education is one of the most important things in the world today. I have witness some great individuals work with a degree under their belts. Education should better society as a whole, but what happens if the education being taught is one that "feeds the mind, but starves the soul and sprit?" The goal of this essay is to describe the educational system in Hard Times.
The school is set in Coketown. The name Coketown gives the impression of a school surrounded by pollution and darkness due to the ash from the factories. The school is described as plain, containing no imagination or decoration, just straight to the point as if it was built purely of facts. Dickens describes the classroom as "plain, bare monotonous vault of a school-room." The word vault, gives the notion of the classroom being like a prison cell, where the children are like prisoners who must follow......
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