How was your Catholic Education?

[goodcatholic]

Mine was excellent up to the end of Elementary School. Then High School was very very thin. maybe because it was the seventies. I got the feeling at the time, that there was no substance to the syllabus. We didn’t learn anything new. Now I think we could have had more content such as Salvation History from the Old Testament. More Bible study too.

 

[joeybaggz]

I would think for most Catholics, high school was a time devoted to study of things other than religion. An acquaintance of mine once made the statement that Catholicism is an adult religion. It is something that grows in a mature person, beyond the teenage and twenty something years. I think most Catholic education for young people is a matter of presenting the faith. As to the depth of acceptance for an adult, that is a matter that has to come from within, no without.
I think the simple presentation of Catholicism is the best on can do with children and young adultsl
As to mine, it was good, but again, by my adult understanding.

 

[goodcatholic]

I think too that some of the nuns who taught us Religious Education in Junior High, didn’t know how to relate to teenagers. I’m not blaming them as I can imagine we were a beastly bunch. In retrospect , it would’ve been helpful to have debates/discussions over issues such as female ordination. To develop our thinking skills.

 

[Arwing]

I like to think I was catechized reasonably well by my parents.

In school, though? Not very good. There was hardly anything I learned in religion classes from grades 1 through 12 that I didn’t already know (by first grade), and what was taught wasn’t very substantial; it’s easy to see why so many of my peers didn’t seem to have particularly strong faith backgrounds, except who got the bulk of their education elsewhere like I did. This was all in the past 15 years though, so knowing that one would hardly be surprised.

In elementary school (and high school I suppose, but I feel it got a little “diluted” by modern liberal ideals by then), there was at least a Catholic-based approach to world issues and such (as I would expect from a Catholic school), so I’ll give them credit for that much.

 

[goodcatholic]

I would think for most Catholics, high school was a time devoted to study of things other than religion.

Why not have higher expectations of Bible knowledge for example? It wouldn’t hurt to know more about the Book of Isaiah for example.

 

[goodcatholic]

it’s easy to see why so many of my peers didn’t seem to have particularly strong faith backgrounds,

I’m wondering about High School students who attend Protestant High Schools. They must graduate with a stronger faith. Because they have teachers with strong faith. (even if it is only centred on Scripture)

 

[Domer90]

I’ll give you an update when son starts his Christian school.

 

[Domer90]

My Catholic education really ramped up in college. It was there that I learned and appreciated (and grew much stronger) in my faith.