School Daze: ‘School was a horror’

Yasmin Hyde went to school in the 1950s, ‘when education was taught by fear’.

Yasmin Hyde went to school in the 1950s, ‘when education was taught by fear’.

Eve Kelliher speaks with Ballymaloe Foods founder Yazmin Hyde about her school days.

My memory of school is shrouded in horror and fear: my school days were in the ’50s and ’60s, when education was taught by fear, though my parents did everything they could to help me, by moving schools and to private education.