Mark Foley Quotes

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

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.

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.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

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.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

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.

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

A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Learning is an unwelcome guest to the Devil, and therefore he would fain starve it out …. If ever there be any Considerable Blow given to the Devil's Kingdom, it must be, by Youth Excellently Educated.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.

Education is soul crafting.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.