Sissy Of Hard Times Analysis

Sissy of Hard Times had an important role in Gradgrind’ s opinion, couldn’t simplified to a rational. Her capability of description may be easily specified low figure and her mathematic information was very low. Also she was innumerate person. Contrary to emotionlessness of Gradgrind’ s child, her imaginary was progressed by her father. (a circus clown) (406) I think there was some resemblances between Sissy and Dickens. Dickens’s father had debts that’s why he was jailed. Then Dickens began to work in a factory. The similar events happened to Sissy. After her father went, she started to work in Gradgrind’s house as a helper. We saw the faulty of Gradgrind’s education system via Sissy’s examples. According to me, everyone should be Sissy.
They were not permanent things. The permanent thing was emotions like love, trust, mercy and affection. A person who didn’t like anyone, his family, nature, animal or anything was wally. Facts was always important but imaginary was so much important. Randal Everett Allsup thinks that the philosophy of Gradgrind simulate the American education system. In the radical fancy must be eradicated. Allsup quoted ‘Children should be tested on basic reading and math skills every year, between grades three and eight. Measuring is the only way to know whether all our children are learning and I want to know, because I refuse to leave any child behind.’ (139) We should draw a boundary between facts and fancy. This boundary must be promoted by politicians,
We should have emotions or feelings. If we don’t have any emotion, we won’t like our family, animal, wife, husband, children. Some conditions, when we decide, we use facts or our wisdom. We neglect our feelings. I think this is not true. We should use both our wisdom and feelings. Facts and emotions cancel out each other. End of the novel Gradgrind notices this. He realises the importance of feelings, imaginary and dream. In that novel Dickens shows us the importance of feelings and the result of wrong educational system. We shouldn’t force and use our children for our benefits. They must be free. We should teach them reading book, respect everyone, good things. Allsup also say that ‘We might say that the genius of Dickens is his ability to think like a child. A lumpy head like the crust of a plum pie- it is just the kind of thing children would say about a teacher like Headmaster Gradgrind. And indeed, it is just the kind of thing that artists do, whether they are writers, musicians, or dancers: like children, they communicate much more than they can possibly put into words. Our goal, I think, is to nurture without romanticizing this sense of wonder, this philosophy. Their curiosity will require facts, of course. Yet, in exchange for these facts, we as music educators- as adults- might learn philosophy from our students: how to love the questions as much as we love the