ALFRED P. SLOAN of GENERAL MOTORS by Peter F. Drucker

“Sloan also realized that the days of the self-taught man in American business– and in GM especially– were numbered, and that the future belonged to the college graduate.

He therefore considered it a major responsibility of any big company to give poor but ambitious youngsters access to a college education. His favorite activity in GM, to which he gave an enormous amount of time and personal attention, was the GM Technical Institute in Flint, Michigan. ‘We need college-trained people,’ Sloan said to me; ‘industry is becoming too complex for people to get anywhere without formal education. We need to build open channels of educational opportunity for the youngsters who don’t have well-heeled parents.’”

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ALFRED P. SLOAN of GENERAL MOTORS by Peter F. Drucker

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