QUOTATION: Education

Parents have to respect their children’s freedom, because there is no real education without personal responsibility, and there is no responsibility without freedom.

--St. Josemaria Escriva

QUOTATION: Catholic Schools

Like our churches, our schools must always minister to the souls of the faithful. If they do not, they fall into decay and become the workshops of evil. History shows us that when schools grow away from the Church, they grow closer to the prisons.

--Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, A Sermon in Szentgotthard, cited in Memoirs, 1974

QUOTATION: Studying Theology

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

--Henri Nouwen

QUOTATION: Christianity and Intelligence

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

QUOTATION: Freedom of Religion and Education

It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be coerced about their form of religion, it also decided that they should be coerced about their form of education.

--G.K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: Education

Sometimes people will say 'Well I've outgrown my faith.' I've met eight zillion people who have said 'Yeah I used to be Catholic...' Well what are you now? And they may be Buddhist, or who knows what? And they sometimes say 'Well I outgrew my Catholic faith, I became more sophisticated, I became more educated.' There's something I have found. Now I have some education. I have earned five university degrees, most of them with highest honors. I'm not bragging, I'm just saying that to let you know that I respect education. I have a high regard for education. But in my many years around the education establishment, I was given a great revelation by God, and the revelation is: a lot of people done been educated into imbecility.

- Fr. John Corapi

QUOTATION: Education

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

--G.K. Chesterton