John Bremer

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

In the 1960s Professor Bremer gained international recognition for creating the

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,
  ISBN 0-03-085317-6
  (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,
  ISBN 0-03-091921-5
  (Trade) (translated as Educacion Abierta: Un Principio; as L'Ecole en Liberte: Guide du Maitre.)
• On Educational Change,
  LCCN 73--86255
• A Matrix for Modern Education, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1975
  ISBN 0-7710-1643-3
• On Plato's Polity, Institute of Philosophy, Houston USA and Kalamunda WA, Australia, 1984
  ISBN 0-930583-00-0
• Plato and the Founding of the Academy,
  ISBN 978-0-7618-2435-0
• Plato's Ion: Philosophy as Performance,
  ISBN 978-1-930566-51-4
• 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,
  ISBN 978-0-7618-2435-0