Beliefs
We believe that:
- Jesus Christ is the chief teacher and model of our school.
- The community of St. Joseph Academy is open to any qualified student who desires to pursue a challenging high school career that prepares him/her for higher education and who has shown a willingness to live by Christian values and conduct.
- Each student is a valued individual with unique spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and intellectual talents and needs.
- Students are responsible and accountable for the decisions they make.
- Students learn in different ways and are to be provided with a variety of instructional approaches to support their learning.
- Positive reinforcement builds students’ self-respect and respect for others. A safe and physically comfortable environment promotes learning.
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Famous quotes containing the word beliefs:
“Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted—Pound’s, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot’s with beliefs. Where the mind’s life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.”
—R.P. Blackmur (1904–1965)
“Other people’s beliefs may be myths, but not mine.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.”
—Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)