Irish Teacher: Surely the purpose of education is more than just getting a job?

"We are being spoon-fed a downgraded, soulless definition of education to avoid deep reform and adequate funding."

Pic: Larry Cummins

The purpose of education is difficult to define. It’s a complex process of becoming.

Education recalls the poet Louis MacNeice, gazing beyond his roses, to the glass, the snow, appreciating what it is – “things being various.”