{"id":136,"date":"2010-11-21T07:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T07:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/one-of-the-most-terrible-things-about-the-english\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T07:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T07:38:34","slug":"one-of-the-most-terrible-things-about-the-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/one-of-the-most-terrible-things-about-the-english\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the most terrible things about the English education system in Ireland is its ruthlessness. I know no image for that ruthlessness in the natural order. The ruthlessness of a wild beast has in it a certain mercy\u2014it slays. It has in it a certain grandeur of animal force. But this ruthlessness is literally without pity and without passion. It is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated, with a multitude of far-reaching arms, with many ponderous presses, carrying out mysterious and long-drawn processes of shaping and moulding, is the true image of the Irish education system. It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all the raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and re-moulds; and what it cannot refashion after the regulation pattern it ejects with all likeness of its former self crushed from it, a bruised and shapeless thing, thereafter accounted waste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/publish.ucc.ie\/celt\/docs\/E900007-001\">The Murder Machine,\u00a0P\u00e1draic H. Pearse<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most terrible things about the English education system in Ireland is its ruthlessness. I know no image for that ruthlessness in the natural order. The ruthlessness of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/one-of-the-most-terrible-things-about-the-english\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","crio-premium-page-header-override":0,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,25],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspired-the-black-parade","tag-teenagers","post_format-post-format-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}