From hard times by charles dickens so, mr. m’choakumchild began in his best manner. he and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. in this passage, charles dickens uses the image of the factory to show that teachers are trained to think in a uniform way many people are studying to become educators the teaching profession is not highly valued mr. m’choakumchild grew up in an industrial city