George Cadle Price
Price received his early and Primary education at Holy Redeemer Primary School In Belize City which he attended from 1926 to 1931 when he was 7 years old in 1926 to 12 years old in 1931. He graduated from Holy Redeemer Primary School and was awarded the “Most Contributive Student” and “Most Outstanding In English in the entire Primary 6 level on Recognition Day which was held on 5 November 1930. In 1931. a year later after he graduated from his Primary school of Holy Redeemer Primary School. He received his Secondary education at St. John’s College High School In 1931 and studied there from Secondary one all the way to Secondary four B. In 1931, the same year he first attended St. John’s College High School, he survived the hurricane of 1931 which destroyed St. John’s College High School at Loyola Park, Swimming away from the wreckage. Under the Jesuits he was exposed to the teachings of Catholic Social justice, in particular the encyclical Rerum novarum. He graduated from St. Johns College High School on 5 November 1935. Upon graduation from St. John’s College High School on 5 November 1935, the young price felt a call to priesthood, so he went to pursue his studies abroad on the advice of his parents and family. He was eligible to pursue a education at a Junior college as he did exceptionally well during his O-levels in St Johns College High School but did not attend any Junior college in the British Honduras as his parents thought then that there was no proper education in the British Honduras and that the education system in British Honduras then was weak they wanted Price to learn more about the education system globally across the world and global. So they urged him to pursue his education abroad instead of at home, in the British Honduras. So Price tailed that move. In 1936 at the age of 16 years old, A year after he graduated from St. John’s College High School which is the following year Price traveled to the Mississippi located in the United States and attended a Junior college there known as Saint Augustine’s Minor Seminary In Mississippi, United States and studied there until 1940. When he was studying at Saint Augustine’s Minor Seminary, his family would often travel from British Honduras to Mississippi in the United States where that Junior college was located so see Price and check on him and how he was going along with his education in Saint Augustine’s Minor Seminary. In the early 1940s, Saint Augustine’s Minor Seminary was not extremely popular for the people of British Honduras to study there as few people the British Honduras knew about that Junior college. Price’s family would sometimes stay with him for a few days in Mississippi, United States before departing back to their own Country of British Honduras.