20 key points "Driving Force: Henry Ford"

1. not a fan of college graduates - Henry Ford
2. Genius, eccentric but not very nice in social and political acts
3. T-Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots.
4. Ford bought out backers that only wanted to make cars for the rich.
5. black Model T rolled out in 1908, it was hailed as America's Everyman car--elegant in its simplicity and a dream machine not just for engineers but for marketing men as well.
6. Ford instituted industrial mass production, but what really mattered to him was mass consumption. He figured that if he paid his factory workers a real living wage and produced more cars in less time for less money, everyone would buy them.
7. In the same way that all politics is local, he knew that business had to be local. Ford's "road men" became a familiar part of the American landscape. By 1912 there were 7,000 Ford dealers across the country.
8. Ford pushed for gas stations everywhere.
9. he campaigned for better roads, which eventually led to an interstate-highway system that is still the envy of the world..
10. His vision would help create a middle class in the U.S., one marked by urbanization, rising wages and some free time in which to spend them.
11. Ford left the family farm at age 16 and walked eight miles to his first job in a Detroit machine shop.
12. Only 2 out of 8 people lived in cities.
13. by World War II that figure would double, and the affordable Model T was one reason for it.
14. People flocked to Detroit for jobs, and if they worked in one of Henry's factories, they could afford one of his cars--it's a virtuous circle, and he was the ringmaster. By the time production ceased for the Model T in 1927, more than 15 million cars had been sold--or half the world's output.
15. Edison and Ford became friends because they were both great visionaries.
16. Ford immortalized his mentor's inventive genius by building the Edison Institute in Dearborn.
17. Ford's great strength was the manufacturing process.
18. The company's assembly line alone threw America's Industrial Revolution into overdrive. Instead of having workers put together the entire car, Ford's cronies, who were great tool- and diemakers from Scotland, organized teams that added parts to each Model T as it moved down a line. By the time Ford's sprawling Highland Park plant was humming along in 1914, the world's first automatic conveyor belt could churn out a car every 93 minutes.
19. the $5-a-day minimum-wage scheme. The average wage in the auto industry then was $2.34 for a 9-hr. shift. Ford not only doubled that, he also shaved an hour off the workday. In those years it was unthinkable that a guy could be paid that much for doing something that didn't involve an awful lot of training or education.
20. Ford was the first company to get a car out after the war, and it was the only company that had a real base overseas. In fact, one of the reasons that Ford is so competitive today is that from the very beginning, Henry Ford went anywhere there was a road--and usually a river. He took the company to 33 countries at his peak. These days the automobile business is going more global every day, and in that, as he was about so many things, Ford was prescient.

    Preparing Students for Living in a Technological Society: A Problem Solving Approach to Teaching

    Points that support the thesis in this article:

1. we will have ever changing technology in the time sto come, but will it be useful?
2. There will be new inventions so new problems.
3. This opens up a whole new field of problem-solving.
4. There are ethics not yet invented for all technology.
5. We also have to take care of the basics for students, these are the most important and should not be forgotten.