Taoiseach Enda Kenny along with Education Minister Richard Bruton and Junior Minister for Skills and Training John Halligan announced the governments new plan at St Brigids National School in the Coombe in Dublin.
As part of an education makeover, the government plan to reduce early school leavers by 10% in 10 years and reduce the cost in disadvantaged schools and costs on the parents.
There will also be emphasis on trainee and apprenticeship programmes, aiming to have 50,000 places by 2020.
The government plan to expand the current curriculum by introducing coding, which is to be taught alongside maths at primary school level by 2018.
Computer science will be taught as a leaving cert subject and new languages such as mandarin will be introduced.
Politics and society is to be part of the leaving cert syllabus throughout 41 schools in autumn and hoped to be nationwide by 2018.
Introducing a series of short subjects like philosophy is also part of the plan.
When explaining the plan, Bruton told the pupils, teachers and parents that he would like Ireland to have the best education system in Europe by 2026.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said: “We want you to reach your potential. We want you to be a brilliant student or apprentice. And when you leave school we want you to get a really good job or think up a really cool invention or set up your own business”.