educed. As this almost happens with Mr. James Harthouse.Bitzer is the perfect product of the Gradgrind system of education. Bitzer appears to be like Bounderby when he was young. He does whatever he is asked to do. In the classroom when asked to define a horse, he give a textbook style definition of facts, not commenting on the horses natural beauty. He states, The whole social system is a question of self-interest. Bitzer like Tom does not care for other peoples feelings. This is proven when Bitzer tries to capture Tom so that he will get his job when he is fired if caught, he would not even take a bribe from Toms father, as getting his job would benefit him more.Theft with adultery, were serious issue when Hard Times was written. The notion of that a woman belonged to a man was true. Therefore I believe that it was the reason why Dickens did not create an affair in Hard Times as in doing so he may have offended the people reading his material, therefore losing readers. Also I think that was the reason why Louisa close relationship with Harthouse was justified by the way Bounderby treated her.Summing up all the evidence I have deduced that the Gradgrind system of education was designed by powerful people to make an unthinking passive workforce so that they could take advantage of them and they wouldnt rebel. The system was probably intended to produce people with no ability to think for themselves, with suppressed imaginations. The Gradgrind system of education has no interest in making pupils into well rounded people and is only an evil way of denying children their childhood for their own personal benefit. In Hard Times Dickens uses the book as the medium to express his bitter feelings against systems of education that were like Gradgrinds, that were plentiful in Victorian Times....
