The Educate Together Ethos is built on four pillars: It is Child Centered, Multi-denominational, Co-educational and Democratic.
This is how the children related the four pillars to their experience in school.
I dreamed I stood in a studio
And I watched two sculptors there,
The clay they used was a young child’s mind
And they fashioned it with care.
One was a teacher, the tools she used
Were books and music and art;
One was a parent with a guiding hand
And a gentle loving heart.
day after day the teacher toiled
With touch that was deft and sure,
While the parent laboured by her side
And polished and smoothed it o’er.
And when at last their task was dones,
They were proud of what they had wrought.
For the things that they had moulded into the child
Could neither be sold nor bought.
And each agreed they would have failed
If they had worked alone,
For behind the parent stood the school,
And behind the teacher, the home.
