John Bremer Explained
John Bremer (1927–2015) was an educator and Socratic philosopher. In 2008 he retired as a senior scholar teaching at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he was Professor of Humanities and Director of the college's Humanities and Freedom Institute. Professor Bremer founded Cambridge College in 1971 when it was then known as the "Institute of Open Education" at Newton College of the Sacred Heart. After retirement he lived full-time in Vermont, where he continued his research and writing. He died on November 30, 2015.[1]
John Bremer was born in England, living in London during The Blitz, and served in the Royal Air Force during World War II building airfields in England. He holds advanced degrees from the Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, the University of Leicester and St. John's College, U.S. Professor Bremer came to the US in 1951 on a Fulbright Fellowship.
In the 1960s Professor Bremer gained international recognition for creating the Parkway Program, in Philadelphia, the first School Without Walls as documented in a book by the same name. The school was featured in Time Magazine in its March 23, 1970 edition.[2]
He was Killam Senior Fellow at Dalhousie University in Halifax and later Commissioner of Education for British Columbia, Canada in 1973.
In 1975, when a professor of Education at Western Washington University he founded the Institute of Socratic Study where Professor Bremer was its director until he moved to Australia in 1980 to found the Education Supplement for The Australian newspaper.
Bibliography
- The School Without Walls: Philadelphia's Parkway Program,[3] by John Bremer and Michael von Moschzisker, Holt, New York 1971 (trade) Also in translations as: Das Parkway-Program in Philadelphia: Schule ohne Mauern; as A Revolucao Pedagogica: Escola Sem Muros: a Program Parkway de Filadelfia; as La Escuela sin Paredos; and in a Japanese version
- Open Education - A Beginning,[4] by John Bremer and Anne Bremer, Holt, New York, 1972 (Trade) (translated as Educacion Abierta: Un Principio; as L'Ecole en Liberte: Guide du Maitre.)
- On Educational Change,[5] National Association of Elementary School Principals, Arlington 1973
- A Matrix for Modern Education, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1975
- On Plato's Polity, Institute of Philosophy, Houston USA and Kalamunda WA, Australia, 1984
- Plato and the Founding of the Academy,[6] University Press of America, 2002
- Plato's Ion: Philosophy as Performance,[7] Bibal Press, Texas USA, January 2005,
- Thomas Taylor the Platonist and James Mill, Utilitarian
- C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 (fin press)
- Homer's ILIAD (forthcoming)
- Plato and the Founding of the Academy: Based on a Letter from Plato, newly discovered,[8] University Press of America (November 8, 2002),
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Rutland Herald, Monday December 14 2015. Legacy.com. 15 December 2015.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101201211755/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943213,00.html Time (magazine)
- Book: 978-0030852879. The School Without Walls, Philadelphia's Parkway Program . Bremer . John . Moschzisker . Michael Von . 1971 .
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000TXV9LW/
- Book: On educational change. January 1973. National Association of Elementary School Principals.
- Book: 0761824359. Plato and the Founding of the Academy: Based on a Letter from Plato, Newly Discovered. Dickens. Bremer. John. 2002. University Press of America .
- Book: 1930566514. Plato's Ion: Philosophy as Performance. Bremer. John. 2005. BIBAL Press .
- Book: 0761824359. Plato and the Founding of the Academy: Based on a Letter from Plato, Newly Discovered. Dickens. Bremer. John. 2002. University Press of America .
