The teaching philosophy that Katherine Watson lived by was to think out side of the box and to get the girls to think outside of the box and try to find new perspectives on how they view things. On the other hand, Charles Dickens' way of teacher was the total opposite. He said the only way to teach was to go by the syllabus and never teach anything other than facts and what is in the book. The differences between their ways of teaching are like yin and yang, total opposites. She teaches to look with a new perspective and questions everything, while he teaches where that whatever it says in the book is what he thinks is right and doesn't have an opinion of his own about the very information he taught. I think that the way Katherine Watson taught is much more efficient and really gets the people thinking and making an opinion of their own.