{"id":9009,"date":"2022-06-30T02:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T06:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2022-12-23T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T01:34:47","slug":"remembering-my-teacher-jeremy-zwelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9009","title":{"rendered":"Remembering my Teacher Jeremy Zwelling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\"\"I was very sorry to hear of the recent death of one my teachers, Jeremy Zwellng. I took a great books course with him my first semester at Wesleyan. He was a rigorous teacher who also had tremendous rapport with the small class of students he lead in intense discussions. At the same time he was charming and truly humorous. He had a big laugh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was a keen critic of our papers and the comments he gave me (and a couple of early Cs), taught me to work harder, think more deeply, pay closer attention to the texts, and write more clearly.<\/div>\n
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(To this day I have some memory of papers I wrote for him and of how much I struggled to go deeper when re-writing them for him.)<\/div>\n
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Most importantly, he taught great books not as pieces of history but as brilliant literature from which we might be able to develop some wisdom, both ethical and spiritual.<\/div>\n
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I also recall some charming dinners with him from to time at East College.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I always wanted to take his course on the Hebrew Bible but could not fit in. But I thought of him and went back to my notes from classes with him when I began to teach the Bible.<\/div>\n
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All these years later, I think of him with respect, fondness, and love. In just that one 15 week class, he had a dramatic and immensely positive effect on my life.\"\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0I was very sorry to hear of the recent death of one my teachers, Jeremy Zwellng. I took a great books course with him my first semester at Wesleyan. He was a rigorous teacher who also had tremendous rapport with the small class of students he lead in intense discussions. At the same time he was charming and truly humorous. He had a big laugh. He was a keen critic of our papers and the comments he gave me (and a couple of early Cs), taught me to work harder, think more deeply, pay closer attention to the texts, and write more clearly. (To this day I have some memory of papers I wrote for him and of how much I struggled to go deeper when re-writing them for him.) Most importantly, he taught great books not as pieces of history but as brilliant literature from which we might be\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/291039418_10159386300493241_813734909978090301_n.jpeg?fit=230%2C278&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}