Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-02 | Page 5 | Calls College Time Wasted

CAllS GALLS COLLEGE TIr TIME E WASTED Industrial Magnates of England Skeptical of Value of Training OXFORD England Jan 1 1 By The Th Associated Press Cap Press Cap of ot Industry In England are beginning to grow arrow skeptical as asto asto ato to the th value of ot a college education atlon for fol future business men Even the th old century-old prestige ot of Oxford and Cambridge Is being questioned tor for In a recent Inter inter- interview interview Interview view W R It Morris head of ot the Morris Motor company co company and known ils as the tho Henry Ford lord of ot England declared that university training Is an absolute waste wast of ot time and anda a severe handicap In commercial life fe In explaining his remarks Ill Mr Morris said I have o no high opinIon opinion opinion ion of ot tho the value of ot for tor education for tor such uch essentially practical purposes purpose as Industry or commerce In fact tact a II university training Is 1 from a business point ot of view absolutelY ab useless There Thero are ar exceptions I know but I have havo never found II a uni- uni university university uni university trained man of ot any use m my organization and nd I am goIng to say ay that for business a training Is an absolute waste wast of ot time LOSE WORKERS PSYCHOLOGY A A university education will make it II scholar but It will not give those qualities essential e for tor commerce and Industry It thol qualities are not originally there If H they are lire It Is quite quit likely to obliterate them It does not not for tor Instance give Elve an n understanding ot of the psYChology p ot of the th Workers worker In Inan Inan inan an Industry As one who went to work early in n life lito In an engineer engineer- engineering lug ing shop hop I got rot my training In ina Inn II a practical school I r know what the worker thinks When I go co through my factory factor among those thousands of ot men I know what hat they are thinking ot of ome me and of ot the th conditions under which I ask them to work My busIness depends as much for Its success upon those men air as upon anything and unless I and those thoe responsible with me tor for the th con con- control control control and management nt of ot the en- en enterprise en enterprise have that th t understanding ot of the th workers how how can can we w hope bope for fol success Neither Oxford nor Cambridge Yale Yalo or Harvard will train that element into Its stu- stu students dents tu-dents dents