A Cincinnati native, Mr. Paul Mittermeier is a “double graduate” of CLASSICAL’s educational partner, Hillsdale College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Politics with a minor in Classical Education (‘17) and his Master of Arts in Political Philosophy from the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship (‘19), having penned his Master’s Thesis, The Attica Effect: Emergent Modes of Dialectical Consciousness in Confinement and Imprisonment. Prior to his arrival at CLASSICAL, Mr. Mittermeier worked for three years at Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill, Florida, where he served as Classics Department Chair, oversaw the school’s Senior Thesis Program, and taught high school courses in Classical Rhetoric (10th Grade), Moral Philosophy (11th Grade) and the Classical Quadrivium (12th Grade), whose curricula he developed. Mr. Mittermeier is a Founding Board Member Emeritus here at CLASSICAL, and he now serves as one of nine Master Teachers in the K-12 Network of Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative (BCSI), in which capacity he drafts educational resources, provides support to teachers at other Hillsdale K-12 Member Schools, and contributes regularly to Hillsdale’s Classical Classroom blog.

A loyal fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and an avid reader of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, Mr. Mittermeier also enjoys horticulture, the collection of antiquarian books, papal history, the history of the House of Habsburg, and all matters concerning ecclesiastical and liturgical vesture. As a classical educator, he hopes to instill a sense of imaginative wonder and a lifelong orientation toward truth, goodness, and beauty in the souls of his students through the art of dialectic. He is grateful to reside in his hometown and to teach here at CLASSICAL.