Mona Lisa Smile: Katherine Watson & Charles Dickens Comparison

In Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times, he states that facts are important when teaching.  The problem with that is, not all facts are right. For example, many people believe that we only use 10% of our brains which, is obviously not true (Yes, Lucy lied to us).  Each part of our brain serves an important function for us to store, remember, and learn new things.  If all we taught were facts or "facts", we would all be  a bunch of confused animals.  In the movie, Mona Lisa Smile, Katherine Watson shows the same kind of passion as Dickens by replacing the words "facts" with originality and independence.  She teaches the women of Wellesley College that facts are not the  most important thing to pass her class, but to think outside of the box and not attune to the ways of life back then.