8 Encouraging quotes from the saints to help ease you into the school year

Parents and teachers can take heart in the words of these holy men and women who understood the purpose of education.

With the summer vacation at an end, parents everywhere are trying to slip back into the daily school routine. Between making sure that kids are stocked up with all the right school supplies and healthy lunches and that they’re doing their homework on time, it’s often an exhausting process. But if you take note of what these eight worthy saints have to say, you’ll see just how rewarding all that effort is, for this life and in the next.

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