Jeremy Wagner

I was raised as a pastor's kid in a small-town New England church community. My first experience of classical languages was when my father taught me Latin and Greek roots in my fifth-grade homeschool, but it wasn't until after I had graduated from Gordon College in 2009, that I discovered the Christian classical renewal and began to dive into Latin in earnest. That initial interest grew into an obsession and eventually a calling.

I began teaching Latin in 2012, I became a CiRCE Certified Master Teacher in 2017, and I completed the CiRCE Tirocinium (i.e. the Latin Apprenticeship) in 2022. I had begun studying Latin textbooks on my own, but thanks to Andrew Kern and Buck Holler, I was now equipped to teach it in an active and dynamic way. That was when I started teaching online classes for the CiRCE Institute Online Academy.

I am a servant of God, a husband, a father of five, and a classical educator with well over a decade of experience as a full-time classroom teacher. Few things bring me so much enjoyment as reading, studying, and teaching Latin.

Teaching Philosophy

To paraphrase Andrew Kern, classical education is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue …