The stories are about two different schools in which the form of education, which they thought was right, was wrong. In Hard Times, the teachers didn’t accept individual expression they were totally against imagination. They asked just for facts and anything else was wrong, this was called utilitarianism. In Jane Eyre, there were two kinds of teachers, the ones that scolded everything and the ones that never punished. Both kinds are wrong, students don’t learn the right way.
The story “Shame” by Dick Gregory and the story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield both have in common the loneliness of both Richard and Miss.Brill and the hatred by others for both of them. In the story “Shame”, author Dick Gregory describes his experiences with both externally and internally motivated shame. The externally motivated shame Richard feels is caused most notably by his teacher, who made belittling comments about Richard’s poverty, his lack of a father and his poor school performance. Richard is motivated to overcome his shameful circumstance by his affection for Helene. And the story of “Miss.Brill” is an English teacher living near the public gardens in a French town.
Due to his background teachers regarded him as a hopeless cause because his difficulty in using Received Pronunciation which contrasts against Harrison's attitude towards language and that there is a variety of dialect within the English language which everyone uses to convey a conversation with one another. When Harrison was young he was overawed by his "posh" teacher who embarrassed him resulting in him feeling demeaned and docile. The first section is in the form of a memory emphasised through the embedded dialogue of the teacher showing how he is undermined as the teacher wants to make sure their "glorious heritage" is not "done to death" suggesting that teacher is aiming to undermine Harrison by discouraging him from reading the important roles. Similarly, in "Bringing Up", he emphasises his separation from his mother as she disgusted over him using taboo language. The use of embedded dialogue implies the different view on the Leeds accent emphasised in his mother being disgusted with him and believes he was not "brought up to write such mucky books!"
One day in class the students were being berated by this teacher because some of them forgot to do their homework, focusing on one of the students more heavily than the others. The student, named Sapo, tells the teacher that he did not do his homework because, according to Mr. Blessington, he is going to end up in prison. The teacher says that he told the children this in order to have one of them prove him wrong in his
After all bullies usually only pick on people they know they can make feel bad to make themselves feel good. Ishmael didn’t feel good about himself, he hated his name he hated hearing the story of how he was born. Ishmael squirmed every time he heard his mother and father tell the story of how he was born and where he got his name from. At school Ishmael spent most of his time, as he says “making himself as small a target as possible” to avoid the bully Barry Bagsley and all the names he called him. Names like Le Spewer, Fishtail Le Sewer and Manure.
Pink’s time in school was hard for him. The teachers were cruel to the students, and did everything they could to hurt the children. Pink sings about the teachers in the song “Happiest Days Of Our Life” where he sings “When we grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would hurt the children in
Finally, there comes PE, the worst part of the day for you. The coaches don't want to let you play and if they do, they don't let you do what the other students are doing even though you know you are capable of doing what they can do. When lunch hits, nobody wants to talk to you or sit by you. You are just in the corner, feeling disgusted yet again. The school day finally ends and you are feeling relieved.
Blake writes of the demoralization of children in his poems who have the unhappy job of cleaning up after others. He provides his sad & pitying commentary on a thankless job. He writes the poem from the point of view of a child, pulling the reader in & making him empathize with the children. The child narration is furthered through song and rhyming. In Blake’s 1789 poem, the persona begins by stating that his mother died when he was young & that his father sold him before he could properly protest his future uncivilized job of sweeping chimneys.
The cause of this appears to be physical and emotional abuse from his father and lack of caring from his school. All the symbols pointing to a decaying, depressing environment. No sense of belonging shown. The pain and suffering endured by him from ‘the old bastard’ his father. This technique of cursing language is used to portray poor relationship he shared with his father “he gave me one backhander..i felt the blood” and his attitude towards the world he’s living in.
Lowood doesn’t have proper facilities for its students who are cold and hungry and prone to sickness. To make matters even worse, the school is managed by a stingy clergyman called Mr. Brocklehurst, and certain teachers, if not all, come across as cruel and unsympathetic. When he asks Jane what she thinks of The Scriptures, she informs Mr. Brocklehurst that she finds the Psalms to be uninteresting. Mr. Brocklehurst warns her that such beliefs are a sign of wickedness, and she must repent and cleanse her "wicked heart." Mr. Brocklehurst promises to reshape her disposition at Lowood by making her lead a life of humility and penitence.