Arms Quote by Patrick Pearse

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

— Jessie Buckley

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better…

— Seamus Heaney

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

— Jean Paul

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the…

— Brigham Young

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…

— Patrick Pearse

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

— Oscar Wilde

Education should be a fundamental human right.

— Sal Khan

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

— Henry Steele Commager

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no…

— Sai Baba

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte