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Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner (1886-1959) was an American educator. He is credited with reforming medical education in the United States, as well as founding the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Biography He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduted at Johns Hopkins University. Initially, he worked as a secondary school teacher and school principal, but after 19 years he returned to academia and did graduate studies at Harvard University and in Berlin. He then became a member of research staff at the Carnegie Foundation (1908), which resulted in the "Flexner Report", which examined the state of American medical education and led to far-reaching reforms in the way doctors were trained. Between 1912 to 1925, Flexner sat on the General Education Board, initially as a member and from 1917 as secretary. With Louis Bamberger, he was initiator of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and he acted as its from 1930 to 1939. Works - Medical Education in the United States and Canada, 1910.
- A Modern School, 1916
- The Gary Schools (with F.B. Bachman, 1918)
- The Burden of Humanism (the Taylorian Lecture at Oxford Univeristy), 1928
- Universities: American, English, German (1930).
- A biography of H.S. Pritchett, 1943.
- Autobiography, 1960 (posthumously).
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