Catholic Education Quotes

• Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Profound, Catholic, Vision

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

  Francois Gautier

  Class, Paris, Catholic

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• [My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

  John Waters

  Catholic, Flamingos, Rage

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• I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

  John Lydon

  Catholic, Vindictive, Horrible

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• Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

  Danny Pudi

  Thinking, Catholic, Able

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Catholic, Religion, Cures

  "Mistaken Identity". Book by Lisa Scottoline, 1999.

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• This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds.

  Sonia Orwell

  School, Catholic, Secret

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