#abraham flexner

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Abraham Flexner – Scientist of the Day

Abraham Flexner, an American educator, was born Nov. 13, 1866.

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Knowledge, careers, and culture are and always have been the objectives of American higher education. … Wharton pioneered making business a learned profession, but conspicuously had no imitators before 1900. What altered business education after that date was the rise of accountancy as a necessary tool of managing large corporations. Here was a paper skill, in short supply, that was needed for career advancement. As states created licensing examinations for certified public accountants (1896–1923), aspirants filled the evening commerce classrooms of urban universities like NYU, Northeastern, YMCA schools, and Wayne. Other initiatives to create semiprofessional schools were not so fortunate. Automobile schools sponsored by the YMCA proved ephemeral, and more business-related specialties like insurance, sales, or advertising failed as separate schools.

Roger L. Geiger, The History of American Higher Education 1636–1940

p ix and p 445 (chapter 10 – Mass Higher Eucation, 1915–1940)

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Los estudiosos que, como los poetas y los músicos, se han ganado el derecho a hacer las cosas a su gusto .../... logran los mayores resultados cuando se les permite actuar así. ABRAHAM FLEXNER [1866-1959]

[jm522415]

¿Qué puede haber màs necio o ridículo, a la vista de la historia del género humano, que las simpatías o antipatías fundadas en la raza o la religión? ABRAHAM FLEXNER [1866-1959).

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putterings, 373-371

                                                  into strange paths so nearly featureless. lists, mislaid names, a matter of spectroscopy, Nomen mutabilia sunt                                                   away and was heard freedom, see the forbidden table, puttering at its pages not strange. how it came about, no idea res autem immobilis                                                   “Names are mutable, things immovable.”  

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spectroscopy, into strange paths

  Again, what is known now as “group theory” was an abstract and inapplicable mathematical theory. It was developed by men who were curious and whose curiosity and puttering led them into strange paths; but “group theory” is to-day the basis of the quantum theory of spectroscopy, which is in daily use by people who have no idea as to how it came about.

ex Abraham Flexner, “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge,” in Harper’s Magazine (October 1939): 544-552 (547) : link (pdf)

discussed by Maria Popova at The Marginalian (27 July 2012) : link

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context at 371  

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それは有用なの？

『有用性という言葉を捨てて、人間の精神を開放しよう』

ーーーーーエイブラハム・フレクスナー（化学者）

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