The Townsend Guild Academy is a consortium of independent tutors in Port Townsend offering courses in Core Subjects and the Humanities to home-schooled students and those in other educational programmes, including the public schools, for grades eight through twelve.
Though we of course aspire to teach and instruct, yet as well within this aspiration our chief pedagogical belief is that all academic subjects are what Socrates called ‘maieutic’, that is, ‘midwives of thought’ – in other words, avenues along which students arrive at and develop their own critical thinking, capacity for dialectic and reasoning, sound and objective open-minded enquiry, rigorous discussion, and an over-all independence of thought. We therefore wholly ascribe to the verb to educate in its true etymological meaning: ex/e-, ‘out from’ + ducere, ‘to lead forth’. Thus, to bring forth or to bring out from within an individual that which already exists (anamnesis), and withal to foster, cultivate, and usher such onward in a manner that respects students’ own minds, hearts, and souls as opposed to force-feeding them an over-profusion of facts and data with the expectation of regurgitating such on multiple choice ‘tests’ and thereafter forgetting them. Our tutors have a personal enduring passion for the subjects they teach, and thereby a natural ardent enthusiasm that we trust will elicit the same in our students.
C U R R E N T A C A D E M Y N E W S
26th January 2026:
As of this date, Townsend Guild Academy is accepting students. To enquire, write to us at tgacademy@juno.com or leave us a message on this website's Contact page.
Cordial Regards, The Tutors
'The knowledge of letters, when it hath been found, sendeth forth its students fit and proper members to rise to divers heights, according to their desserts'
Lady Elizabeth de Clare, University of Cambridge, 1359
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Townsend Guild Academy is a device-free learning environment: laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc. are therefore not permitted in the classroom at any time for any academic reason.


Altiora in Pulchritudio quod Cogitatio Obstetrix est
Beauty is the midwife of thought
THE TOWNSEND GUILD ACADEMY
'The Beautiful is not to be stared at, but to be lived with'
Macaulay, Diary, 23 October 1838
For course synopses please visit the Services page.

The Humanities
English Language and Literature, Etymological Greek and Latin, Shakespeare (Immersive Theatre), Philosophy, Epistemology, Classical Civilisation: The Greeks and the Romans, Psychosophy (The Human Soul), Anthroposophical Studies, Classical Painting

History and The Social Sciences
World History, Global Issues, Mediæval European History, The Renaissance, History of the Mediæval University, History of the Levant (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumaria, and Assyria), The History of English Lexicography

Mathematics and Mathesis
Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry (Euclidian), The History of Mathematics and Mathematicians
Townsend Guild Academy
The Academy's Student Tutorial Sitting Room

CONTACT US
Kindly leave your message or enquiry here, and we will respond presently. Please include your e-mail address in your message.
Thank You,
The Tutors, Townsend Guild Academy
Larling Cottage
Port Townsend, Washington
E-Mail: tgacademy@juno.com
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