mona lisa smile vs. charles dickens'

In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, the professor Katherine Watson sees that the students have already mastered everything in the textbook and so she starts teaching them art that is not in the textbook and she tells them that they don't have to like the art, they just have to consider it. she begins a new teaching  method called progressive teaching. in the Charles Dickens' mid-nineteenth century novel, he says that he wants the students learning nothing but facts. Katherine Watson wants the students to have their own view of the art rather than the textbooks view of it and Charles Dickens doesn't care what the students think or what their view on something is because doesn't want them learning anything but facts.