8th Grade - Mr. Ireland

"When the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past. We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our “neighbors” and everything around us. Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity, in a constant effort to do our best. I am confident that we can do this."

-Pope Francis


"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt


"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

-Theodore Roosevelt


"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

-John F. Kennedy