Hedge Schools and Classical Education in Ireland - Crisis Magazine

Hedge Schools and Classical Education in Ireland - Crisis Magazine: The first Tuesday of the first full week in May is National Teacher Day, so this seems an opportune occasion to recall a courageous, but little-known group of teachers and schoolmasters who sacrificed comfort and security for the sake of truth, goodness, and beauty in seventeenth-century Ireland. From very early days, classical education was highly …