Kevin Gary spent ten years as a high school teacher before becoming a college professor. As a teacher of future teachers and school leaders, he understands the challenges educators face. He draws from the works of classical and contemporary thinkers for practical wisdom.

Kevin’s book Why Boredom Matters (Cambridge, 2022) takes on one of the biggest adversaries of learning and human flourishing, whether in the classroom or outside of it. Kevin teaches Classical Education at Hillsdale College, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of education, the history of liberal education, as well logic and rhetoric. Last spring Kevin taught a seminar on the writings of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis. Prior to Hillsdale he taught at Valparaiso University, where he taught classes in education, theology, the freshman Core program, and in Christ College Honors College. Kevin is a founding member of NAAPE, the North American Association for Philosophy of Education. He has been a fellow at the Yale for Faith and Culture. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy of education from Loyola University Chicago, as well as an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Loyola and an M.A. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame. Kevin enjoys speaking to groups of all ages and stages of life.