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ABRAHAM FLEXNER – Author Quotes<\/div>\n


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\u201cN<\/strong>o nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Alexander Flexner<\/strong>, American education & non-profit leader<\/p>\n

Universities American English German<\/em> (1930) Part III: English Universities, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 302; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e50981-5cde”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cOne thing, however, seems clear. Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.<\/span> We must make our choice; we cannot have both. The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships \u2013 a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! In Great Britain, the national budget devotes a huge sum to war \u2013 present, past, or future \u2013 as against an inconsiderable sum to education. Until the figures are reversed, the two nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.\u201d (p. 302)<\/p>\n

Source & Context Note<\/em><\/strong>: Flexner\u2019s preface indicates that his book \u201cis an extension of three lectures on Universities <\/em>given at Oxford in May 1928 on the invitation of the Rhodes Trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Universities <\/em>(1930) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/universitiesamer008115mbp#page\/n317\/mode\/2up\/search\/%22war+and+civilization%22<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cS<\/strong>cience, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Alexander Flexner<\/strong>, American education & non-profit leader<\/p>\n

Universities American English German<\/em> (1930) Part I: \u201cThe Idea of a Modern University\u201d, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 19; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e50981-5cde”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cWar is no longer a solution \u2013 it merely creates additional problems. Thus science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.<\/span> Such are the consequences of progress in a portion of the physical and biological sciences in a small corner of the western world.\u201d (p. 19)<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Universities <\/em>(1930) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/universitiesamer008115mbp#page\/n33\/mode\/2up\/search\/%22solving+problems%22<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Abraham Flexner\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n