Episode 297: Throwing Darts in the Dark: What Happens When Psychology and Education Forget What a Human Person Is

Psychology is supposed to be a hard science with clear answers about what's healthy. It isn't — and when the people forming our kids can't say what a human being actually is, even their best work turns into darts thrown in the dark.

Dr. Greg sits down with Dr. Brett Salkeld — host of the Making Every Class Catholic podcast — to trace what psychology and education both get wrong when they skip the question of what a person is for, and why the schools racing hardest to keep up with technology may not be the ones still standing in five years.

Key Topics:

• Why psychology has no agreed-on standard for mental health — and what that gap is doing to real kids in real classrooms
• Why you have to know what a healthy human being is before you can help one heal
• How one true principle about the human person let Dr. Greg call the phone crisis in 2014 — years before the data caught up
• Why a phone doesn't connect two people so much as stand between them — and who profits from keeping it there
• Why the schools racing hardest to keep up with technology may be the ones that don't exist in five years
• What actually makes a school worth attending once AI can hand a kid any fact for free

Learn More:

• Dr. Brett Salkeld's podcast: Making Every Class Catholic — bringing the Catholic faith into every subject in the classroom
• Educating for Eternity: A Teacher's Companion for Making Every Class Catholic by Dr. Brett Salkeld
• Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyła (St. John Paul II)
• Duc in Altum Schools Collaborative — the Catholic-schools network where Dr. Greg first met Dr. Salkeld
• Join us at the Summit of Integration in Dallas — launching the Year of St. John Paul II
• The Personalist Cure — Dr. Greg's new book, launching this October at the Summit
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