Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-13 Thread Sachin Phadte
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[Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-12 Thread Bhandare
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Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-11 Thread Bosco D'Mello
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Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-10 Thread George Pinto
--- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, Thanks for your honest insights. I do not know whether to laugh or > cry. To help Gilbert make a decision, may I suggest he cry first and then laugh. Sort of like "he who laughs last, laughs best". Preferable to crying last or laugh

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-10 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
On 10/12/2007, Sachin Phadte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel Braganza says: "Most RSS fanatics are atheists " Can I please > have the source of this gem of information? > And in what context was it necessary to bring in the RSS in this > discussion? I may have missed reading some of the mes

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-10 Thread Carvalho
--- Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you reversed course and said "To the best of my > knowledge Catholic schools > in India offer an outstanding secular education". > > And we still haven't established what is "secular > education" notwithstanding > your circuitous response above

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-10 Thread Sachin Phadte
Miguel Braganza says: "Most RSS fanatics are atheists " Can I please have the source of this gem of information? And in what context was it necessary to bring in the RSS in this discussion? I may have missed reading some of the messages in this thread. Sachin Phadte __

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-10 Thread Bosco D'Mello
On Sun Dec 9 08:01:03 PST Carvalho wrote: > --- Bosco D'Mello wrote: > RESPONSE: I have asked earlier and I ask > again..what is a secular > education? > --- A secular education in a secular country, adheres to the curriculum set by the National Board of Educat

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-10 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your honest insights. I do not know whether to laugh or cry. Though my hunch is like most "secular humanist" in your situation, you are enjoying the best of both worlds. I got to check your Saturday night schedule. :=)) Your account goes along with what Dinesh alluded to.

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-09 Thread Carvalho
--- Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RESPONSE: I have asked earlier and I ask > again..what is a secular > education? > --- A secular education in a secular country, adheres to the curriculum set by the National Board of Education. It is devoid of all a

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-09 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 08/12/2007, Kevin Saldanha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will use my one free posting to GoaNet for this week to answer Gabe's > question (which I thought I had done in the past). > > First of all... COMPROMISE is the only way to hold the domestic peace ;-) I > have learned and continue to lea

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-08 Thread Bosco D'Mello
On Sat Dec 8 02:05:19 PST 2007, Carvalho wrote: Hats off to every person who has had the benefit of an excellent education imparted in the best schools in India. RESPONSE: So you are contradicting you're earlier statement? To the best of my knowledge Catholic schools in India offer an outsta

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-08 Thread Kevin Saldanha
I will use my one free posting to GoaNet for this week to answer Gabe's question (which I thought I had done in the past). First of all... COMPROMISE is the only way to hold the domestic peace ;-) I have learned and continue to learn this over 25 years of marital bliss. Having said that, the ear

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-08 Thread Miguel Braganza
gri script because of grants or money, honey. The word "Catholic" means "universal". The irony of it was that catholic schools are generally rather parochial! ;-( Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:49:51 + From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Gabe

2007-12-08 Thread Carvalho
--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our children are grown up and perhaps the cause is > lost - which ever > way, we brought them up. Our dear Selma is looking > for guidance, so > perhaps she might get enlightenment, whether she > accepts it or not is > another matter ! > -- > DEV BORE

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools/to Bosco

2007-12-08 Thread Carvalho
--- Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Response: I wonder what was jeopardized in my > case...or for that matter > in the case of Rico, Cecil, Miguel - who were > educated in Catholic > institutions in Goa. Response: Hats off to every person who has had the benefit of an excellent

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 06/12/2007, CORNEL DACOSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John and Michael >In the UK, Church schools are particularly attractive to parents. Indeed, > parents will lie/cheat and claim a Catholic affiliation for their kids to get > into one. Thus, they are over-subscribed. The main reason

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-07 Thread Bosco D'Mello
On Wed Dec 5 22:43:55 PST 2007, Carvalho wrote: I think a distinction has to be made between Catholic schools and Catholic-managed schools. Response: Uh-oh!! Looks like another round of gymnastics is commencing(No wit or wisdom in this statement):-)) A Catholic school is one wh

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:43:55 -0800 (PST) From: Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would not send my child to a school where any sort of religious indoctrination takes place, because there is nothing to be gained from an education nuanced by religion, even in the slightest, and indeed a great deal t

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-07 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi John and Michael In the UK, Church schools are particularly attractive to parents. Indeed, parents will lie/cheat and claim a Catholic affiliation for their kids to get into one. Thus, they are over-subscribed. The main reason is because there is an expection that discipline is better gene

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-06 Thread Carvalho
--- John DSouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Goo-Netters, > > Like, Rico, I too would like to know the opinion of > other Goa-netters especially those who are living in > the west. > > Warm regards, -- Dear John, There's a lot of goo and gas on the site the

Re: [Goanet] Catholic children and Catholic schools

2007-12-05 Thread John DSouza
Dear Goo-Netters, I feel very very strongly that ALL Catholic children should attend Catholic institutions as far as possible. My parents are products of Catholic institutions ( Loretto Convent and St. Bananbus High School and St. Xavier College, Calcutta) and my wife's parents attended St. Joseph