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...colleges of the University of London sprawl across the face of London. Main highways and back alleys wind through its campus. Students of medicine and Marathi, English history and household work commute to classes. "Could anything be more absurd?" asked Educational Critic Abraham Flexner in his famed 1930 critique of American, English and German universities. "I confess myself unable to understand in what sense the University of London is a university...
...foundation also set out to revolutionize medical education, for Frederick Gates had been impressed by the famed report of Abraham Flexner on U.S. medical schools. In the entire nation, Flexner had found in 1910, there were only half a dozen good schools. Few of the medical colleges had clinics, fewer still had good laboratories, and many required no more than a high-school education for admission. Under Flexner's direction, the foundation and the General Education Board began pouring millions into top universities, helping them make their medical schools models for the rest of the U.S. Stirred to action...
...scholars who have not talked to each other for years are beginning to communicate at last. The talk goes on in every classroom, in every corner of the campus. It is Yale's answer to the long, arid years of schizophrenia and specialization, to such critics as Abraham Flexner, who denounced U.S. education as "atomistic," and Robert Hutchins, who dubbed it "disunity, discord and disorder...
Nineteen years ago, in a thundering book called Universities: American, English, German, learned Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N J., roundly damned U.S. colleges. With all their "wretched claptrap" of vocationalism, he held, "they resemble the modern drugstore in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains." Last week, at 82, Educator Flexner announced a modified opinion: "There must have been changes in educational methods." His reason for thinking so: for two years he had quietly been taking courses in English literature and the fine arts at Columbia...
Under J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Institute's third director (the first two: Flexner and Frank Aydelotte), sitting and thinking are still encouraged. But so are writing and talking; Robert Oppenheimer thinks that ideas were meant to be shared...