The Scottish Education Department went out of their way to eradicate Gaelic.

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by Sgoinneil

It contradicts what you claimed earlier about Britain being more responsible than Scotland.

It does nothing of the sort.

You certainly seem to have difficulties comprehending the English language .

Read it again , with the assistance of a competent adult .
Read my post again too , the pertinent ones .
In doing so you will see that I laid the responsibility of the 1872 act at the feet of the British Empire and it's one size fits all policies .
The article , rightly points out that the act ignored Gaelic completely , and that the actions taken against the Gaelic speaking kids was not official policy .
Furthermore the artical specifically states that with the space of 15 years provisions were made for the teaching of Gaelic , but that the opportunity was not made best use of for various reasons .

If you wish to be taken seriously in an international discussion , keep to the Topic .
Your emotive comment about the Highlanders , while true , as those of us who descend from the Highlands well know , has no part in this debate .
Once again , if you had read and fully comprehended the content of the article you would know that Highlanders took a leading role in the campaign to preserve the language.

Research is a marvelous thing .

[Sgoinneil]

The British state was a Scottish invention.

[Sgoinneil]

Large areas of Scotland including Perthshire and Aberdeenshire still had Gaelic speakers until the twentieth century. The Scottish authorities went out of their way to destroy this and invested heavily in paying employees to see it through.