St. Paul on the lake Catholic CHurch

St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church is dedicated to forming joyful missionary disciples of Jesus Christ.

January 22, 2023             

     An education is a magnificent gift to receive. Learning about the created world, how it works, and how to communicate with one another is a wonder of God.  All the disciplines of education, in the end, should lead us to God.
 
    Many of us probably took some of our schooling for granted, even for some playing “hooky.” Skipping school was not a part of my thought process. I look back at the missed opportunities to learn a comprehensive way of understanding grammar and punctuation with tree diagraming. Now, there are moments when I want to sit at a desk in the seventh grade classroom ready and eager to appreciate the gift of English diagraming. I remember being in ninth grade (that was junior high in my day) bombing Algebra. I struggled with Math every year and by the grace of God my teacher forfeited her lunch on many days to help me understand -5y+3=2(4y+12). Seriously? I shed many tears but she had the confidence that I could do it. And I did. I went from a very poor grade to a B. If you sat me down today and I had to do it over, well, I am not so sure.
 
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