Dickens's object of social criticism in this excerpt from Hard Times is that a system of education that treats children like machines. The answer is letter A. It is shown in the novel that the teachers only taught students regarding on the works of the society but did not focus on the emotional context. The only thing that the teachers care about are the results of the input that they gave. If this is not corrected, then the students will bring it to the society. That is why, there is a large gap between the rich and the poor. The rich believes that the poor can make it if they strive harder. What makes it harder is that the poor has to undergone so many things, pain and hardships in other to get to the top and some of them could not even reach there. This is what is wrong in the society.
