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.

Intro to Classical Arithmetic, Lesson 03. Linear Measure

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You must complete the following assignments for this lesson: Study your Lesson. Complete your Memory Work. Complete the Lesson Exercises. Complete the Lesson Examination. Lesson Study the following lesson carefully, reading it aloud and making any notes that help you. You must know all of the content to pass your lesson examination. In our last lesson, we learned that to measure any quantity, we must begin with some known quantity, which we call Unity. We discussed how our everyday tasks do not usually need exact measurements, but in many cases exact measurements are needed. For these tasks, men have worked … Continue

Proving Climate Change with Examples?

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The crisis of the hour is climate change. Politicians are eager to convince the American people that zillions of tax dollars are needed for the rescue of the planet, which rescue will, of course never materialize. Nevertheless, the politicians and non-profits are working to persuade Americans to vote for the government funding of climate change prevention. With a population that never studies Reasoning, these arguments are easy. Yesterday, I watched a video titled, “Is water the new gold?”, which warned that the western United States is turning into a desert. The cause, of course, is “climate change”. In the video, … Continue

Freshman Latin, Lesson 05

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In this lesson, you will study the accidents of nouns. You will learn to name the eight accidents and to define and identify noun gender and number. You must complete the following assignments for this lesson: Study Grammar Rules 21-25 below. All rules must be mastered and known by memory. Study the Lessons as you learn the rules. Complete the Lesson Examination and submit your answers to your instructor. Lesson [Rule 21] It would be good at this point to review. So far we have learned that there are eight parts of speech. We then began the study of the … Continue

Why the CLAA is So Polarizing

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If you search the internet for “Catholic homeschool” or “classical Catholic education”, the Classical Liberal Arts Academy will be very visible in the search results. However, if you look at articles written by Catholics on homeschooling, attend a homeschool co-op, send kids to a “classical” Catholic school, etc., it will appear that no one has any idea what the Classical Liberal Arts Academy is. Why is this? The Classical Liberal Arts Academy is polarizing because it is the only Catholic study program that offers students the opportunity what the wise men and saints of history actually studied, and we prove … Continue