Abbot laments cloying teaching system
Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman, who was principal at Glenstal fee-paying secondary school from 1985 to 1991, says the system is potentially a weapon of mass destruction where imagination is concerned.
“The Murder Machine, as Padraig Pearse described it, is an educational system based upon memory alone, where children are required to commit to memory unconscionable numbers of facts which they are then required to regurgitate at a particular time of examination,” he said.
