Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

His Flexner Report publiAbraham Flexnerd in 1910 reformed medical education in the United States. A younger brother of the medical researcher Simon Flexner who was employed by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1901–1935 Flexner graduated from Johns Hopkins University at age 19. B.

Abraham Flexner (November 13 1866 – September 21 1959) was an American educator. He also helped found the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.