Critical reading identify the letter of the choice that best answers the question. in hard times, what is the basis of thomas gradgrind's teaching?
a. teach nothing but facts.
b. encourage creativity.
c. emphasize math and science.
d. challenge students' imaginations.

A. Teach nothing but facts.

Thomas Gradgrind is a character in the book Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Dickens tells us that Gradgrind is a monotone, mechanized teacher who wants to teach nothing but facts to his students. His philosophy is that human beings can be fully rational, and his interest lies only in dry facts. This has brought him great financial success but has made him a hard, rigid man.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.