Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

Charles Dickens
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Charles Darwin said, “Now, what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.” When it comes to education, many teachers feel like they need to teach students more than facts. They feel like they should explain to students how the world works or that they should teach them something that will allow them to think outside of the box. This quote by Charles Darwin is asking us to teach our children only facts, not opinions or theories about the world around them.

If we do this, our children will be able to learn without having their minds being filled with things that are not true.

Source: Hard Times

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