Mr. Michael Rose

Mr. Rose is the Founding Head of School of Cincinnati Classical Academy. Since opening its doors in 2022, Cincinnati Classical Academy has become one of the fastest-growing classical schools in Ohio, attracting families from dozens of school districts who seek a content-rich, virtue-centered education rooted in the Western tradition.

Before founding CLASSICAL, Mr. Rose spent 17 years in education as a middle school, high school, and college instructor. He has taught grammar, composition, literature, logic and rhetoric. His academic formation reflects the interdisciplinary spirit of classical education itself. He studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati, literary arts at Brown University, education and school administration at Xavier University, and completed executive leadership studies at Harvard Business School. His additional coursework in classical studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki deepened his engagement with the intellectual foundations of Western civilization and the enduring questions at the heart of a liberal education.

A frequent lecturer and writer on education, culture, architecture, and the humanities, Mr. Rose is the author of The Art of Being Human (Angelico Press, 2023) and The Subversive Art of a Classical Education (Regnery, 2026). His essays and public commentary explore the relationship between beauty, truth, virtue, and human flourishing in the face of technological distraction and cultural fragmentation.

Mr. Rose’s vision for Cincinnati Classical Academy draws upon the full inheritance of Western civilization—its architecture, literature, philosophy, music, scientific achievement, and civic ideals—as living sources of wisdom capable of forming free, thoughtful, and virtuous citizens. He believes that education is ultimately concerned with helping students discover what it means to live a fully human life.