Dr. John Jalsevac On Classical Education - Part 3

Thinking Faith: Catholic Podcast

In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salkeld and Dr. John Jalsevac, headmaster of Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic School in Peterborough, Ontario discuss the growing popularity of Classical education and its distinct approach to student formation and education.

Show Snippet: "There needs to be a space where they can read a difficult book and allow themselves to be shaped and formed by it. And that's Skolay. Activism is go out and do, Skolay is rest and be. Learn how to be in a deeper way. None of this is to say that activism is a negative thing; however, if you become an activist and you go out and you try to change the world without being rooted in a strong sense of identity and meaning, what will often happen is the activist world will, will take hold of you and you will lose sense of the higher goods and you will be consumed by the anxiety and the fear and the anger."