William C. MichaelWilliam C. Michael

Mr. William C. Michael, O.P., is the founder and headmaster of the Classical Liberal Arts Academy and a Lay Dominican in the Catholic Church. Mr. Michael received an honors degree in Classics and Ancient History from Rutgers University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He led the CLAA to accreditation with Cognia in 2024. He has been studying and teaching the classical liberal arts for over 30 years.

The Stage Coach, by Thomas Hughes

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The following text is studied in the Classical Liberal Arts Academy’s Elementary Literature 7 course. “Now, sir, time to get up, if you please. Tally-ho coach for Leicester’ll be round in half an hour, and don’t wait for nobody.” So spake the boots of the Peacock Inn, Islington, at half-past two o’clock on the morning of a day in the early part of November 183-, giving Tom at the same time a shake by the shoulder, and then putting down a candle and carrying off his shoes to clean… Tom and his father had alighted at the Peacock at about … Continue

Grade Study Program

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In 2024-2025, the Classical Liberal Arts Academy will be offering a very simple and easy-to-use grade level program to serve our goal of making the satisfaction of modern school requirements as convenient as possible. It is not our goal to simply to offer a program that makes grade level studies convenient, but to free students to pursue classical Catholic studies with the time that is made available by such a program. Notes

Recommended Study Program for Parents

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Dear friends, Finding faithful and rigorous formation as adults is challenging, but I have a program to recommend that Dania and I will be involved in for years to come. Catholic University of America offers a Master’s in Catechesis program that is perfect for Catholic parents. The program is online, so parents can

Defining Terms in Modern Science

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concepts: generalizable properties or characteristics associated with objects,events, or people. While objects such as a person, a firm, or a car are not concepts, their specificcharacteristics or behavior such as a person’s attitude toward immigrants, a firm’s capacity forinnovation, and a car’s weight can be viewed as concepts.Knowingly or unknowingly, we use different kinds of concepts in our everydayconversations. Some of these concepts have been developed over time through our sharedlanguage. Sometimes, we borrow concepts from other disciplines or languages to explain aphenomenon of interest. For instance, the idea of gravitation borrowed from physics can beused in business to describe … Continue

How Does Tutoring Help a Student?

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If you’re a parent, you may wonder how providing a child with tutoring can help. You should be asking questions like: What benefits does tutoring really offer? How does tutoring improve a child’s life? Is tutoring really necessary? Is tutoring worth the money? These are important questions that parents should be asking. The easy answer is NO, generally speaking, tutoring is not productive or worth the money. There are bad, over-priced tutors that are just looking for money. Most are just modern teachers doing modern things, as if more of a bad thing makes it good. Most modern tutoring is … Continue

Tutoring and College Admission

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I once walked with a mother into the high school office and watched her write a check for $37,000 for her daughters’ high school tuition. As she handed the check to the office secretary, she turned and asked me if I would tutor her eldest daughter because she and her husband (a prominent lawyer) wanted to make sure she was prepared for admission to a selective university. Despite all the benefits available–and her daughter was an A student–she knew that prep school tuition wasn’t enough to guarantee admission. The admissions office at Harvard University says: “By taking the most academically … Continue

Why Modern Tutoring Isn’t Enough

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The modern K-12 school system is dysfunctional and students are suffering in it. Yet, the costs keep rising. Parents see their children struggling and contact a tutor, only to find that most tutors are part of the system rather than a solution to it. Most treat some of the symptoms, but neglect the causes of the problems. After spending lots of money on tutoring, parents will find their children in trouble again. Students commonly have problems that come from a number of sources. We need to address the immediate problems (low grades, confusion, frustration, etc.), but we also need to … Continue