A Jesuit education - like all the works of the Jesuits – has as its mission the service of faith of which the promotion of justice is an essential element. It is a mission rooted in the belief that a new world community of justice, love and peace needs educated persons of competence, conscience and compassion, men and women who are ready to embrace and promote all that is fully human, who are committed to working for the freedom and dignity of all peoples, and who are willing to do so in cooperation with others equally dedicated to the reform of society and its structures.
A Jesuit education is based upon Ignatian pedagogy derived from the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius. Through the commitment and efforts of all members of the learning community – students, parents, staff, alumni, friends and board members – our students develop into competent, conscientious and compassionate men and women for others who dedicate their lives to leadership through service and cooperation with others in order to praise, reverence, and serve God. Our education forms graduates to become lifelong learners who are open to growth, intellectually competent, loving, religious, and committed to doing justice.
A Jesuit education seeks to develop students who strive toward the Jesuit ideal of the magis: a thirst for the more, for the greater good, for the most courageous response to the challenges of our time in the fullest development of students' talents, and for a life-long disposition to serve.
A Jesuit education, if truly successful, results in a radical transformation of the way in which people habitually think, act, and the very way they live.
A Jesuit education strives to educate each student to accept that all persons are created in God's image and are unique expressions of the divine. This varied diversity inspires the men and women of our community to create a loving and nurturing environment where each student's talents, abilities and desires can reach their highest expression.
A Jesuit education challenges students to excel according to a pattern of Christian service -- to fulfill all of our God-given potential and to place that fullness at the service of others. Jesus Christ is the model for this service. While such a notion is contrary to much contemporary understanding of success, we believe it offers the student a rich capacity to engage in a loving dialogue with the world into which we send them at graduation. Our hope is that this dialogue will build a more just and faith-filled world.
In 1848, in Montreal, the Jesuits opened Collège Ste-Marie out of which would grow three others: Loyola College in 1896, St-Ignace in 1927 and Jean-de-Brébeuf in 1928. Later there would be colleges and high schools at St-Boniface, Sudbury, Edmonton, Regina, Kingston, Winnipeg, Halifax, St. John's, and Toronto.
Today you will find elementary schools connected to St. Ignatius Parish, Winnipeg and Our Lady of Lourdes, Toronto. As well, Jesuits run two high schools – St. Paul’s High School, Winnipeg and Loyola High School, Montreal. And Jesuits assist in the operation of St. Bonaventure’s College, St. John’s.
In the field of higher education, the Jesuits run Campion College at the University of Regina, the Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Manitoba and Regis College in Toronto.
Regis College is the Jesuit Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto, one of North America's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical faculties.
Inspired by the charism of St. Ignatius of Loyola and faithful to the Roman Catholic tradition, Regis serves women and men called to minister to people of many faiths and cultures.
Central to Regis’ mission is the affirmation of their Jesuit/Ignatian heritage as they continue to form candidates coming to them in preparation for ordination. As well, they are a College rooted firmly in the Roman Catholic tradition and serving the Catholic community. 
Regis’ context is increasingly global, ecumenical and interfaith. Regis College is dedicated to the preparation of people for ministry in the Roman Catholic and other Christian communities.
The best known of the Jesuit research institutions is the Lonergan Research Institute at Regis College in the University of Toronto which was founded in 1985 with a mission “to preserve, promote, develop and implement” the work of Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan, SJ. (1904-1984).
"Today our prime educational objective must be to form men and women for others; men and women who will live not for themselves, but for God and His Christ...men and women who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbours; men and women completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for men is a farce...This kind of education goes directly counter to the prevailing trend practically everywhere in the world.”
- Father Pedro Arrupe, a past Superior General of the Jesuits (from 1965 to 1983).