Quote of the day
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Patrick MacGill

Born: December 24, 1889
Died: 1963 (aged 73)
Bio: Patrick MacGill was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.
Known for:
- Children of the dead end (1914)
- The rat-pit (1915)
- The Red Horizon (1916)
- Great Push (1916)
- Moleskin Joe (1923)