"Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely
             twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive.
             Sheds coat in spring......" A perfect example of a product of
             utilitarian education, Bitzer defines a horse off the top of his
             head in a split second. Utilitarianism is the assumption that
             human beings act in a way that highlights their own self
             interest. It is based on factuality and leaves little room for
             imagination. Dickens provides three vivid examples of this
             utilitarian logic in Hard Times. The first; Mr. Thomas
             Gradgrind, one of the main characters in the book, was the
             principal of a school in Coketown. He was a firm believer in
             utilitarianism and instilled this philosophy into the students at
             the school from a very young age, as well as his own
             children. Mr. Josiah Bounderby was also a practitioner of
             utilitarianism, but was more interested in the profit that
             stemmed from it. At the other end of the perspective, a
             group of circus members, who are the total opposite of
             utilitarians, are added by Dickens to provide a sharp
             contrast from the ideas of Mr. Bounderby and Mr.
             Thomas Gradgrind Sr., a father of five children, has lived his
             life by the book and never strayed from his philosophy that
             life is nothing more than facts and statistics. He has
             successfully incorporated this belief into the school system of
             Coketown, and has tried his best to do so with his own
             children. The educators see children as easy targets just
             waiting to be filled with information. They did not consider,
             however, the children's need for fiction, poetry, and other
             fine arts that are used to expand children's minds, all of
             which are essential today in order to produce well-rounded
             human beings through the educational process. One has to
             wonder how different the story would be if Gradgrind did
             not run the school. How can you give a utilitarian man such
             as Gradgrind such power ov...