Going to a Catholic Grammar School for 9 years had its benefits. We had to wear uniforms so there wasnt any clothes competition, we went to church all the time so we got some formal spiritual training, you couldnt even think of using profanity because you thought the nuns read your mind and would find out what you were thinking, we learned good penmanship, we were respectful, compliant, and responsible. The crazy thing is no one gave me a choice in any of these areas I was forced to do them.
It wasnt like the nun said to me you can go to church if you like, or why dont you try to hold your pencil this way, or is that the way to speak to someone? If I didnt do it the way it was supposed to be done there would be blood stains on the floor, and it wasnt Jesus it was mine. As I look back at this experience the one thing that I realize is that this type of education taught me something that no one talks about today and thats self-control. The majority of the problems that a person faces in their life are related to a lack of self-control. Everybody either eats too much, drinks too much, spends too much, cant control their temper, lusts after things that they cant have like...