Katherine Watson vs. Charles Dickens

Katherine Watson was a very independent person, which was abnormal in the time period and society that she lived in. While teaching at Wellesley, Katherine Watson did not teach using the same methods that so many teachers at that school used. Miss Watson taught her students to think outside of the box and to not conform to society. She taught her students things outside of the facts from the textbooks that they were not used to learning. In Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times", he writes that facts are all that students need to learn, and that facts are the only things that are going to help the children in the future. Katherine Watson's teaching style was far more personal and based on opinion than the character in Charles Dickens' novel is.