SNIPPET: Patrick PEARSE (1879-1916), educationalist, writer, poet and revolutionary, is best known as a leader of the rising of 1916, but his nationalism was initially more cultural than political. A bilingual secondary school, St. Enda's (Scoil Eanna) was founded in Dublin by PEARSE in 1909 to give expression to his ideals, both nationalistic and educational. He intended that the Gaelic ethos and curriculum of the school should inspire his boys to a nobility of character in which love of Ireland would be the guiding principle. Condemning contemporary intermediate education, with its emphasis on rigid teaching methods, examinations and neglect of Irishness, he emphasized the importance of eliciting and fostering each pupil's talent through a school regimen that looked to the feats of Ireland's past heroes for inspiration.