Dr. Stephen Mitchell

A veteran high school humanities teacher, with eighteen years of experience in rigorous, college-preparatory Christian schools, I am honored to offer my experience to the parents and students of Kepler Education. I have a strong record of teaching excellence, including significant experience teaching students of diverse abilities.

As a scholar, I possess deep knowledge where literature, theology, and philosophy intersect. As a teacher, I am adept at putting these three disciplines into conversation with each other in my classes. I am also a skilled writing teacher, conversant in both classical and contemporary rhetoric.

As an active, published essayist, I understand the challenges of writing and can use that understanding to help my students become better writers themselves.

For the past 18 years, I have made my home in the piedmont region of North Carolina. When I am not teaching, I enjoy reading (lots of it), hiking, swimming, cycling, and gardening.

Teaching Philosophy

As a child of Christian parents, I learned early that faith is important. As a young adult, I learned, by way of both classical and modern thinkers, what Pope John Paul II has declared in the epigraph to Fides et Ratio: “Faith and reason are like two wings …