How was your Catholic Education when growing up? POLL

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I am curious as to how good was your Catholic education.

Please tell me if i should add more to the pole
  • I learned a lot with clarity: Excellent!
  • I learned some but wished I knew more: Good
  • I learned something, but nothing of importance: Fair
  • My education was a joke: Needs Improvement
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The Jesuits really know what they are doing. Both prep school and university were ideal for me.
 
I didn’t learn much. I’d like to think I just forgot everything, but that’s probably not the case. Everything I learned about Catholicism in my reversion came as a shock to me.
 
My Catholic Education was terrible.

All I learned in CCD was the Our Father, half of the Hail Mary, and that God loved me.

In retrospect, I remember receiving a rosary for my first holy communion and confirmation (9th grade), but I didn’t know what they were for. I thought they were beaded necklaces.

I even thought death of one of the seven sacraments! Besides what I list above, I learned far more on my own.

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NOTE: this was 1983 to 1992
 
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I am bitter on the state of Catholic education in America.
 
I answered with “…lot with clarity…” To qualify that statement, though, the values pertaining to education along with other values, were inculcated in my family and community life.
 
Good but would have been better if the Jesuits were running things.
 
I didn’t know enough to know that I didn’t know enough. Since starting to teach religious education in my parish I’ve learned so much more.
 
I marked “Learned a lot, with clarity”, not because of my Catholic school education, which was academically excellent, but the religious instruction was mediocre at best.

My mother was the product of a convent boarding school in Ireland, and my father did his undergrad in Thomistic philosophy before going on to med school.

THEY were the ones who passed on an excellent Catholic education, not the school.
 
I think I must have learned something, although my mother always characterized CCD as nothing more than, “Draw a picture of Jesus being nice to the children.”
 
Felician’s - need I say more?

and the Baltimore Catechism. A great combination…
 
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I can’t really vote on the poll because, while my secular education was great, I had to teach myself Catholicism. It was basically just a college prep school. There needs to either be more options or a separate poll.
 
I went to a Catholic grade school,they give us a Bible, and that was about it.
 
I don’t really know how to answer this question. I went to Catholic school and I really value my Catholic education, but I think a lot of it assumed that we knew the basics of the faith, when many did not. Without knowing the basics, it is easy to get lost in the beautiful and rich but complex aspects of our faith.
 
The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary taught me all I really needed to know.
 
I learned close to nothing. Everything came to me after my reversion
 
He started a new thread just so that this wouldn’t turn into a homosexuality thread.
 
I am very critical of my Catholic education in Australia.

Virtually all of my previous school colleagues have left Catholicism and when I went back to Catholic University to become a Catholic teacher I found a Theology department run by feminist atheists trying to shame the few remaining loyal (rigid) Catholics out of the faith.
 
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The Franciscan Sisters were wonderful teachers. I went to school with them for 12 years. The education part was superior to Public School education (became apparent when I went to college and didn’t have to take bone-head Math and English.) The religious studies was adequate but I wasn’t as receptive as I should have been… My mother was a very religious woman and she passed that love of God and Jesus and the Catholic Church on to us. She went out of her way to send us to Catholic School and they really gave us a basis… Still I learned so much more after I fell away and came back…
 
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