Abraham Flexner

Abraham 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.

Works

• Medical Education in the United States and Canada, 1910 (PDF).
• A Modern School, 1916
• The Gary Schools (with F.B. Bachman, 1918)
• The Burden of Humanism (the Taylorian Lecture at Oxford University), 1928
• Universities: American, English, German (1930).
• A biography of H.S. Pritchett, 1943.
• Autobiography, 1960 (posthumously).