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“Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6

“The home is the first school of Christian life.” 1657, Catechism of the Catholic Church.

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” – G.K. Chesterton

“The most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad.” – Plato, The Republic

“Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues.” 2223, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.” – Proverbs 4:13

“Education consists essentially in preparing man for what he must be and for what he must do here below, in order to attain the sublime end for which he was created.” Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri