John Seiler Brubacher (1898 – 1988) was a professor at Yale University and author of many books on the subject of educational philosophy.
He attended public high school in Schenectady, New York and graduated from The Albany Academy after his family moved to Albany. He graduated from at Yale University with a B.A. degree, Harvard Law School with a J.D. degree, and Columbia University Teachers College with a M.A. degree. In August 1924 he married and returned to Teachers College to work on his Ph.D. In 1928 he joined the faculty at Yale.