After retirement he lived full-time in Vermont, where he continued his research and writing.
[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.
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.
[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.