Year around foliage provides lush shade in summer and, for the most part, breaks the cold humid winds of a bayou deluge winter. Though southwestern Louisiana is a comfortable place during most days of the year, as Hurricane Andrew once threatened to demonstrate, this area does have its moments. While providing sanctuary from some of the externally boorish elements of the world's influence and persuasion, the scholastic ethos largely succeeds in sidestepping provincialism. Drawn to the contemplative life , but at the same time wishing to remain responsive to the needs of the world at large, she founded a community in Paris that believed that by educating women, their empowerment could bring about social change and remake the world into a better place.
Technology promises an equal amount of both.
To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, while at first we shape, we are then in turn shaped. Historically, the tradition of a Sacred Heart education served to prepare young women for their assumed future roles as mothers and moral educators of children. In the communities for which these women served, this was considered good Republican Motherhood . For the homes in which these women belonged, this same tradition strengthened a Cult of Domesticity , or the ideal of women as pillars of virtue and morality. The strong educational quality of the Sacred Heart schools laid other foundations as well.