Junior · Stanford University

Sophia Chen

Linguistics & Classics

Raised between Shanghai and Paris, Sophia brings a rare cosmopolitan sensibility to early education. She believes in introducing children to classical texts in their original languages — Greek myths in Greek, Roman philosophy in Latin — fostering a relationship with ideas that no translation can fully replicate. Her youngest pupil began reading Ancient Greek at age seven.

"A child who reads Aesop in Greek will find all other texts waiting patiently for them."