INDIVIDUAL HUMANITIES TUTORING · GRADES 3—12
Where children are pupils, not clients.
Piraeus Academy provides individual online instruction in literature, writing, history, and the humanities for young readers and writers who require greater challenge, closer criticism, and a course of study built around them.
Tailored curricula · One-to-one instruction · Substantive written feedback
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates goes to Piraeus, the bustling port of Athens. There he encounters commerce, foreign customs, and competing arguments. Piraeus Academy takes its name from the place where serious inquiry enters the disorder of ordinary life and begins to do its work.
OUR NAME AND INSPIRATION
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And may we not say that the philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not a part of the wisdom only, but of the whole?
— Plato, Republic, Book V
HUMANITIES AT THE CORE
Literature, writing, history, philosophy, languages, art, and more.
PERSONALIZED INSTRUCTION
One-to-one learning built around each student.
HIGH STANDARDS
Intellectual challenge and careful guidance.
LIFELONG LEARNING
Education that shapes character and encourages curiosity.
Who thrives at Piraeus?
CAPABLE BUT DISENGAGED
Curious students who need help building focus, organization, and the discipline to finish important work.
ADVANCED BUT UNDERCHALLENGED
Strong students who need deeper texts, closer feedback, and freedom to think independently.
Kate Ravenscroft, a Harvard College graduate with latin honors and a lifelong student in the humanities, founded Piraeus Academy to offer young people the education that changed her own life.