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Abraham Flexner

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Educator

The Resume

    (November 13, 1866-September 21, 1959)
    Born in Louisville, Kentucky
    B.A. in Classics (cultural history between the 8th century BC and AD 6th century) at Johns Hopkins University
    Author of ‘The American College’
    Publisher of the Flexner Report of 1910 (Carnegie Foundation Bulletin #4)
    Founder of the Lincoln School (1917)
    Head of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930–39)
    Orthodox Jewish family

Why he might be annoying:

    Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, he would serve on their General Education Board (and became their secretary five years in) for 13 years.
    Prior to joining the Carnegie Foundation, he had never been known to set food inside medical school.
    Having failed to achieve his initial goal of a fellowship, he became a high school teacher of Latin and Greek.
    His landmark report cited a need for centralized medical institutions (many of which closed soon after).
    On simple grounds of ‘racist and sexist writings,’ the Association of American Medical Colleges renamed a namesake award (2020).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was the first high school graduate of his family.
    While not seeing it as a good method of instruction, he clearly understood the value of the university lecture in handling multitudes of students at once.
    For the Institute, he brought in many European scientists set to suffer persecution by the surging Nazi forces (including one Albert Einstein).
    His one marriage, to a former student of his school, bore him two daughters.
    The local board of aldermen named Abraham Flexner Way, in the heart of the Louisville hospital district, for him (1978).

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