Editing Progressive education (section)

===Ireland===
The [[Quakers|Quaker]] school run in '''[[Ballitore]]''', [[County Kildare|Co Kildare]] in the 18th century had students from as far away as Bordeaux (where there was a substantial Irish émigré population), the Caribbean and Norway. Notable pupils included [[Edmund Burke]] and [[Napper Tandy]].
'''Sgoil Éanna''', or in English [[St. Enda's School|St Enda's]] was founded in 1908 by [[Patrick Pearse|Pádraig Pearse]] on Montessori principles. Its former assistant headmaster [[Thomas MacDonagh]] and other teachers including Pearse; games master [[Con Colbert]]; Pearse's brother, Willie, the art teacher, and [[Joseph Plunkett]], and occasional lecturer in English, were executed by the British after the 1916 Rising. Pearse and MacDonagh were two of the seven leaders who signed the [[Irish Declaration of Independence]]. Pearse's book ''The Murder Machine''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof00pearuoft/page/n10 | title=Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse; political writings and speeches| year=1916| publisher=Dublin Phoenix}}</ref> was a denunciation of the English school system of the time and a declaration of his own educational principles. Apart from these examples of progressive education, however, during the decades after the advent of national independence in 1922, Irish educational policy makers generally rejected progressive ideas, focusing instead on curricula and teaching methods that reflected the new country's Catholic heritage and nationalist ethos up until the 1960s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=Thomas |last2=O'Donoghue |first2=Tom |title=Transnational Knowledge Circulation and the Closing of Minds to Progressive Education Influences on Schooling in the First Decade of Independence in Ireland. |journal=History of Education Quarterly |date=February 2025 |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=91-110 |doi=10.1017/heq.2024.60}}</ref>