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M’Choakumchild is the improbable surname of the grinding, fact-fact-fact school-teacher from the beginning of Dickens’s Hard Times.

Mr. M’Choakumchild began in his best manner. He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately...

Via's section serves another important purpose in the novel: it fills in information that Auggie's opening section did not provide. Readers get a detailed description of how Auggie's face looks, an issue that was skirted in the first section....

Mr. Gradgrind is the intellectual founder of the Gradgrind educational system and he is also a member of Parliament. He represents the rigor of "hard facts" and statistics. The school reflects the emptiness of imagination and utilitarian approach...