Staff only: Time for a reality check: we don't really care about kids [Independent.ie]
- Published: 04 November 2009
Now that we realise that Ireland is not actually some kind of oversized Celtic Monte Carlo, I feel it's time to put some of my thoughts down regarding the delusions surrounding Irish education. I'll start with the oft quoted maxim that we have 'the best education system in the world'.
This ranks alongside us having 'the most sophisticated electorate in the world' and I'd hazard a guess that both of these outrageous clichés were actually contrived not by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, but by ourselves.
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