Private Chemistry Tutoring for High School Students
Qualifications
Dr. George holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, a B.S. from MIT, and has over thirty-five years of experience enabling high school and middle school students to excel. His academic distinction is underscored by the fact that upon completing studies at MIT, he was admitted with full scholarships to doctoral programs at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. This included receiving two separate offers of admission from Harvard the same year for two different doctoral programs, both with full scholarships and a letter of commendation from Harvard’s academic dean for the rarity of this achievement. He had to turn down one of the Harvard offers to accept the other and was also a Fiske Scholar at Harvard. In addition to being extremely well respected in the academic and educational communities, he has authored numerous reviewed publications and presentations. Dr. George tutors because he enjoys crafting minds to rise to their full potential; it is his contribution to society.
Esteemed Endorsements
The tutoring industry is unfortunately flooded with superb marketing but less than desirable instruction. As a one-person corporation, I take the extreme pride in each of my students. Please read the growing list of hundreds of parents and student testimonials along with prominent named endorsements. These writings about me is the result of decades of crafting students to excel and gives me cause to look in the mirror and smile, knowing that I put my heart into properly educating every student.
Personalized Attention
Perdocere is intentionally a one-person tutoring corporation providing customized one-on-one instruction. Each of my private students receives the highest quality education and individualized attention, provided only by me. This model provides a level of educational excellence that a class setting, franchise, or tutor broker could not possibly approach. Perdocere students consistently outperform others. I do not enroll students and then hire tutors to dispatch. My time is spent preparing for and educating your student myself. Perdocere is a true premium tutoring service. The result is that your child receives the highest quality instruction, second to none.
Academic Subject Tutoring, Grades 7-12
Perdocere is proud to provide by far the best private instruction for schoolwork, homework, and exam preparation for high school and middle school students. Individualized instruction for students who either need to catch up, maintain grades, or excel beyond their curriculum. Work with the student’s curriculum, teach the material in the way each individual student learns best, detailed decomposition of and solutions to problems, and augment the curriculum. Correctly build or rebuild math and science foundations, improve study habits, test taking abilities, organizational skills, build self-esteem and confidence.
Thinking, not memorization
An equation, fact, or method that is merely memorized will easily be forgotten. A student who does well by just memorizing or following fixed procedures will later find themselves with a serious disadvantage. I emphasize proper comprehension and the ability to creatively use knowledge. This is the intent of school exams, college admissions, and future success. The goal is not just to get into your college of choice, but also to succeed there!
What does Perdocere mean?
The word “Perdocere” is Latin, present active infinitive. It translates as “To Teach or Instruct Thoroughly”. I chose this name very carefully, and it is validated by the huge and growing list of hundreds of parent and student testimonials. Over the years, the name Perdocere has become synonymous for the best and most prominent private instruction available.
Should families get tutoring?
When public school superintendents, private school headmasters, and other very senior school officials have their own children tutored, the writing is on the wall. Tutoring is an undertaking to improve learning, whether it be catching up, maintaining performance, or excelling beyond the curriculum. On that note, lower quality tutoring does more harm than good, and those who are price shopping should beware. A defunct franchise once advertised to potential owners that educational experience was not necessary, and that gross mistake (which others still make) requires no clarification. High quality tutoring cannot be run as a commodity business, it’s about an earnest student, the actual best tutor, and their journey together towards educational excellence.
Worried about college admissions?
I can make certain that your student’s grades shine. During the pandemic, cohort learning and classes meeting infrequently simply didn’t work. Grades at school are now more important than ever. For your own benefit, lookup the admissions staff at the colleges you’re interested in, and then their LinkedIn profiles, you may feel better (or worse). Knowing who is assessing applications, and their own backgrounds and qualifications, is enlightening. As I’ve preached for years, be yourself in your application, “esse quam videri” which means “to be, rather than to seem”, and deliver that to your audience.
Perdocere has been Flattered
It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Perdocere is constantly being flattered, but never reproduced. The combination of the one-person tutoring model together with the extensive experience and qualifications of the instructor makes Perdocere stand out significantly from the rest. For example, a senior level tutor from a national competitor called to request that I teach them! I gracefully said no (also, it would take too many years to properly re-educate them), but it is a compliment that competitors desire Perdocere’s unsurpassed talent for instruction. Perdocere is proud not only to have set the bar for the very best private tutoring, but to continuously raise it.