21 fev 1957 ano - Eva Brann becomes tutor at St. John's

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Yale Masters (Classics) and PhD (Archaeology) 1950-57
Born in Berlin (1929), emigrated 1941

Carolyn Kim-Brown (https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/eva-brann):
"When Brann arrived on the Annapolis campus of St. John's in 1957, fresh from Yale with an archaeology PhD in hand, she found herself a student all over again. "I fell in love with it at first sight," she says. "Our tutors learn along with students. It is an all-required program for the students but it is also all-required for the teachers." "I read my way and discussed my way through four years worth of great books," says Brann. "It's never boring. It's sometimes strenuous, but it's never boring. I can't remember ever being bored.""....Students begin with books originally written in Greek. "We are really convinced that these are things that everyone ought to know something about," says Brann. "The reason is that these are the root foundations of what you might call the two important influences in our common lives--namely, democracy and technology. Our students come out having some set of clear, and not so clear, notions about where they came from, intellectually speaking, what is behind them, how things came to be the way they are, and have some appreciation of the scientific foundations of our lives." "It's a chancy thing to be doing," says Brann, referring to the fact that St. John's is not a typical university or college, and can be difficult for some students and even some faculty. "We don't have a high rate of appointment. They come to us and they lose contact with the ordinary academic world. In American higher education, there are some firmly established ways. Publication is important. They aren't important for us. Specialization-we don't specialize. So it's a huge step for an individual or for even an institution to take."

Eva ended up at St. John's due to Seth Benardete (https://www.sjc.edu/news/graduate-institute-alumni-release-documentary-feature-tutor-eva-brann)

of St John's when she got there: "I thought it was sheer heaven" (2009 C-SPAN interview https://www.c-span.org/video/?287718-1/writers-life-eva-brann)

She loved Jacob Klein right away, as he sniffed at her publication as rather worthless waste of time.

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