A recent study by the University of California Santa Barbara has found that a Catholic education helps to improve students' self-discipline.
According to associate professor Michael Gottfried's and doctoral student Jacob Kirksey's findings, Catholic schools are better at instilling traits of self-discipline in their students than US public schools and other private schools.
Their study focused on answering two questions. One: Are children in Catholic elementary schools more self-disciplined than comparable students in other schools, as measured by their likelihood to engage in verbal and physical confrontations and control their tempers? And two: Is the relationship between Catholic school attendance and self-discipline stronger in certain subsets of students?
