It is often said that an education is the one gift that none can take away from you. While this saying is one that applies to all education, whether formal or otherwise, for me it applies in a special way to the Catholic education that I have been raised with. I have grown up in a Catholic family and attended Catholic schools since pre-school so I may be biased in saying so, but I do believe that a Catholic Education is a gift of a lifetime. No where else but in a Catholic school, could I have been granted the opportunity to spend my most crucial and formative years in an environment that nurtures and cares for every member of its community. I am so endlessly blessed to be able to wake up each morning and go to a place where I will be surrounded by a system of beautifully complex and wonderfully supportive students and teachers among whom I will not only learn, but be challenged to expand my thinking and reach higher than I thought possible. It is the close-knit Group that is my class of 2019, that I have a grown to know so deeply and personally, that pushes me to do better in both how I succeed in school and how …show more content…
Throughout my many years of Catholic education, I have met so many incredible people, all with varying levels of faith. It is in these people that I realized that my Catholic education is not some force in my life that limits my views to what is strictly and literally outlined in scripture and directs my fellow peers and I to all practice and believe in the same way. Rather, it is a guiding force that shows me the path of justice and righteousness and provides me with the necessary tools to blaze my own trail from wherever my faith leads me at a given time, back to this ultimate path. My catholic education teaches me about my faith and gives me all of the necessary tools to understand it, but grants me the freedom to do with these tools what I