Mr. Michael Rose

Michael Rose, a national leader in the classical education movement, is founding Headmaster and Superintendent of Cincinnati Classical Academy.

Mr. Rose is the author of The Subversive Art of a Classical Education (Regnery, 2026) and The Art of Being Human (Angelico Press, 2023). He writes and edits the Classical Compass Rose Substack newsletter and is a primary contributor to The Sentinel. His articles and editorials have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Conservative, The Dallas Morning News, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sacred Architecture, and other publications.

Mr. Rose has a special interest in integrating classical art and architectural beauty into a classical education. His unique background bridges the humanities and the built environment, informing his classical vision of education. He has considered himself a lifelong student of the classical liberal arts ever since studying abroad in 1991 at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he learned to pursue the good, the true, and the beautiful.