Quotes On Catholic School Education

#1. I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

Mark Foley

#2. [Taken from a BBC documentary]
Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.

Tariq Ali

#3. So ... what's your truth, Logan?'Logan stared at him so intently that Tate wondered what was going on inside his head before he replied,'I think you are,' leaving Tate speechless.

Ella Frank

#4. The difference between a regular Catholic education and a Jesuit education is the difference between the army and the marines.

Gary Reilly

#5. Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

David Horowitz

#6. Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.

Tim Seldin

#7. Language is just as rule-based in its newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome. But the rules, now as then, are written from below, not from above.

Matt Ridley

#8. We should allow them to be who they are, because then we end up with healthy kids.

Geena Rocero

#9. Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

C.S. Lewis

#10. I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Nancy Pelosi

#11. The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

David Lynch

#12. It's also crucial to keep in mind that no matter how nonsensical and frustrating our child's feelings may seem to us, they are real and important to our child. It's vital that we treat them as such in our response.

Daniel J. Siegel

#13. A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. My children have gone to Catholic school ... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Alice McDermott

#15. Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

Steve Sailer

#16. I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

George Saunders

#17. We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.

Meryn G. Callander

#19. We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.

Molly Friedenfeld

#20. Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

Alia Shawkat

#21. My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

Edward P. Jones

#22. All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a border where you knew things no one else knew.

Jeff VanderMeer