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Show Irish Schools CriticUed Because teachers and pupils In rural schools of the Irish Free State must spend so much time In reviving the Irish language they have no time to take up scientific farming Instruction. Instruc-tion. This, T. Derrlg, Free State minister for education, told a group of educators meeting in Dublin. The old Idea of learning reams of matter In flowery language, which young people rarely understood, and which bore no relation to the facts of life around them, is dying hard, he said. He added this was intended to train memories, but the best memories were found in schools where the poetry and plays were not learned. |