If the Home Office had complied with the courts 'rulings, Gabrial and those like him would at least have been able legally to obtain work, to support themselves and to regain some self-respect, which the gradgrind asylum support system appears calculated to destroy, along with hope and sanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRR News] Reference

The complaints of educators that learning does not enter into character and affect conduct; the protests against memoriter work, against cramming, against gradgrind preoccupation with "facts," against devotion to wire-drawn distinctions and ill-understood rules and principles, all follow from this state of affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference