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Pearse's Influence On Education

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From looking at numerous sources there is information supporting that Patrick Pearse was a progressive educator. This essay will discuss that numerous ways that Pearse was a progressive educator. Also, it will discuss how Pearse’s nationalistic ideals impact on his teaching methods has been largely over-rated. Through his work for the Gaelic League Pearse became convinced that the key to reviving the Irish language was education. Inspired by his ideals, he set up his own school, St. Enda’s, in Cullenswood House, Ranelagh in 1908. Pearse was also influenced by the most modern educational theories of his time, he was influenced by Maria Montessori and in particular the ‘Direct Method’ of language teaching which he had seen being practised …show more content…

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. The Montessori Method is an approach to learning which emphasizes active learning, independence, cooperation, and learning in harmony with each child's unique pace of development (David L, 2016). Persuaded of the charism which touches every single extraordinary teacher, he felt that they were endowed with a priest like office. In contrast to these believes. Montessori thought that the teacher should stand back to centralised the activities of free-bonding children, Pearse believed that the best teachers bring ‘not a set of ready-made opinions but an inspiration and an example’. (Walsh, 2013) This could both be seen as a positive and negative for setting such a premium on feeling. Pearse has left a much less developed set of educational theories than Montessori or Pestalozzi or Froebel. (Walsh, 2013) He wanted flexibility for each school to shape its own particular program, an opportunity for every instructor to convey something of their own identity to their work, and opportunity for every student “to grow in his own natural way, that is, in God’s way.” (Titley,

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