Inspiration Unplugged Catholic Lecture Series presents the CWL Annual Lecture ft. Dr. Brett Salkeld

What makes for an authentically Catholic education? Many things, surely, but essential among them is teaching every subject from a Catholic point of view, often called curriculum permeation. Catholic education cannot be reduced to a secular education with a religion elective. Such an arrangement itself disintegrates the unity of truth and suggests that life’s biggest questions are an optional extra to the real business of education. Rather, a truly Catholic education understands that every subject provides its own proper lens for approaching the truth of creation and ultimately God.

But this raises several valid questions. What does an orientation towards God mean for the legitimate earthly goals of education, like marketable skills or responsible citizenship? What does a Catholic approach to every subject mean for the rightful autonomy of those subjects? How is what is being proposed here not indoctrination? And, finally, what does this look like in practice? In subjects like music, or language arts, or world languages, it is easy to imagine adding Catholic content, but how does this work in math or science where adding Catholic content seems awkward or impossible?

Join Dr. Brett Salkeld, author of the award-winning Educating for Eternity: A Teacher’s Companion for Making Every Class Catholic to explore these questions at the Annual CWL Lecture at St. Mary’s University on Thursday, Sept. 12.

Light refreshments will be provided.