Joe Baca Quotes

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

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

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.

Muslims are bound to know all the tenets of their religion, to discuss them and to regulate their lives accordingly. Therefore, a purely secular education without religious instructions would be like a body without soul.

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.

I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

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.

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.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I liked going to Catholic school.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.