If you think that the Irish education system, or the average Irish school, is the same as it was in your day, whenever that day may have been, it’s time to wake up. There is an abundance of evidence to suggest that the system itself is being reshaped with a focus not so much on educating the nation’s children as on making them ‘citizens’ of a very particular kind.
In this subversive drift – “subversive” in a negative sense because it seeks to upend long-established realities and values – the word ‘critical’ is often used, but this iteration is often about as far from critical thinking, which relies on logic, reason and discernment as you can get. Instead, school students are being told that some new interpretation – gender ideology for example – is a fact that must be unthinkingly accepted.
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