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I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
The Economist - April 2, 2009

THAT the children of the poor underachieve in later life, and thus remain poor themselves, is one of the enduring problems of society. Sociologists have studied and described it. Socialists have tried to abolish it by dictatorship and central planning. Liberals have preferred democracy and opportunity. But nobody has truly understood what causes it. Until, perhaps, now. (read more)

Time to let them play
Irishtimes.com - April 7, 2009

WHEN IRENE Gunning started a playgroup at her home in a new Dublin housing estate in the 1970s, she remembers a mother saying as she left her three-year-old child in: “Now Irene, I don’t want my daughter just playing, she can do that at home. I want her to learn.”  More than 30 years later, it is still a constant battle to make people understand that it is through play that children learn. (read more)

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