So true! My education was supplied by dedicated nuns many years ago. They didn't know about the PC thing called "ADD" or new math. They believed that it was their job to teach us what we needed to know, no matter what they had to do to get it into our hard little heads and it was our job to accept it.
Our little school didn't have federal aid, we didn't have all the accouterments of schools today, yet we all survived and did well in life.