Samuel Kimzey grew up as one of eight children in a homeschooling family in southwest Virginia. He completed his M.A. in History and Christian Studies with a Music minor at Bluefield College. He subsequently taught for four years at Valley Classical School in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he taught humanities, theology, logic, Latin, and music, as well as serving as middle school academic director. While teaching, he earned his M.A. in Humanities (concentration in Classical Education) from the University of Dallas, and wrote his master’s thesis on John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon.