How does Charles Dickens show his dislike for the education system?

How does Charles Dickens show his dislike for the education system?

In the novel, ‘Hard Times’ , Dickens uses characterisation to show his dislike for the education system,
for example, When he compares young girl number ‘twenty’ Sissy Jupe and Bitzer, the pale boy whose mind has been filled with
‘Facts’ which is emphasized by how many times Mr Grandgrind repeats it, is seen as more healthy than the boy Bitzer
‘..But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her,
the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.’
This characteristic is but one way in which he shows that the young girl is imaginative and healthy, as she has not yet had facts poured into her mind,
like the young boy Blitzer.

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When Blitzer is asked to define a horse, you would imagine a normal child to describe a horse as say, big and brown. However, because of Mr Gradgrinds,
rationalist teachings, he simply states fact
‘Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring;
in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth.’

Thurthermore, when Dickens’ describes gradgrine he makes him out to be dull, lifeless and overall boring.

His dislike is emphasized through the titles the book is given
“The one thing needful” and “Murdering the innocent”
The chapter names ‘the one thing needful’’ says that all Gradgrind cares about are facts so dickens
title suggests that all facts are the only thing needed. While the title ‘murdering the innocent’
tells us that dickens feels the education system is killing the children minds and their imaginations are being…