“And inspiration will come also from the hero-stories of the world, and especially of our own people; from science and art if taught by people who are really scientists and artists, and not merely persons with certificates from Mr T W Russell; from literature enjoyed as literature and not studied as ‘texts’; from the associations of the school place; finally and chiefly from the humanity and great-heartedness of the teacher.” SchoolEducationMythologyIrelandEducational PhilosophyGaelscoil Book:The Murder Machine and Other Essays Source: The Murder Machine and Other Essays
“I knew one boy who passed through several schools a dunce and a laughing-stock; the National Board and the Intermediate Board had sat in judgment upon him and had damned him as a failure before men and angels. Yet a friend and fellow-worker of mine discovered that he was gifted with a wondrous sympathy for nature, that he loved and understood the ways of plants, that he had a strange minuteness and subtlety of observation—that, in short, he was the sort of boy likely to become an accomplished botanist.” SchoolEducationHistoryTeachersIrishPatrick Pearse Book:The Murder Machine and Other Essays Source: The Murder Machine and Other Essays
“Éanlaith an aeir, beithígh na coillte, éisc na habhann is na farraige - bráithre dúinn iad siúd ar fad.” NatureNationalismIrish Language Book:Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh Source: Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh