I Stop Here with Jim McGarry

<p>How far does one act of conscience travel?</p><p>Jim McGarry spent nearly four decades teaching in Catholic high schools in the Bay Area and beyond, where he became known for a particular kind of teaching: bringing Holocaust survivors into the classroom to speak directly to students, a practice he started after his first training as a Holocaust educator in 1992.</p><p>At the center of the conversation is a story Jim returns to often — about the person who refuses to serve something they perceive as harmful, and is willing to lose everything to hold that line. It’s not a portrait of solitary heroism. It’s something far more connected: the quiet, essential presence of the people who make that courage possible in the first place.</p>