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“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...”

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Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse

Patrick Pearse was an Irish poet and nationalist, born on November 10, 1879, and died on May 3, 1916. He is known for his poetry and contributions to the Irish nationalist movement. more

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