Home Economics is a subject taught in the Junior Certificate course in Ireland The course is similar to other Home Economics courses but with some differences. The subject is generally optional and many of its participants are female (however, a rising number of males are now taking the subject at both Junior and Leaving Cert levels). The course covers cooking, textile work (such as sewing), nutrition, childcare, family life, Consumer law, food science, social studies and many other topics associated with homemaking, professional cookery, culinary arts & of course many other professions.
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Famous quotes containing the words home and/or economics:
“You may be used to a day that includes answering eleven phone calls, attending two meetings, and writing three reports; when you are at home with an infant you will feel you have accomplished quite a lot if you have a shower and a sit-down meal in the same day.”
—Anne C. Weisberg (20th century)
“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)