
Felicity Tompkins
about the teacher
Felicity graduated from the CIRCE Teacher Apprenticeship in 2021 and will graduate from the Tirocinium Latin Apprenticeship in July 2025. She lives in the beautiful state of Colorado with her husband and four children. She has been teaching and home-schooling for over a decade and is passionate about learning that promotes deep thinking, individual growth, and a sense of place.
Felicity graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Russian and Eastern studies and received a J.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. She has taught literature, writing, Latin, and various other classes. She enjoys language and stories, travel and learning, hiking, and yoga.
Teaching Philosophy
Students are Divine Image Bearers, and as we journey together through the course, we will seek to find harmony by identifying the logos, nature, or species in the language, literature, or skill we are practicing. Our meetings will explore the logos of each lesson through Mimetic and Socratic teaching modes. As David Hicks in Norms and Nobility states, “This kind of teaching, and this kind of learning, is intrinsically personal, not analytic or abstract.“ I aim to know each student and provoke curiosity as we look upon the good, true, …