Toward the end of his life Henry Ford was talking to a young kid by the name of John Dahlinger (more about him later in the programme). Henry was telling the kid how great his education had been when he was a boy, in a single-room schoolhouse. The kid listened to this stuff and then said “But sir, these are different times, this is the modern age and …” Henry cut him off before he could finish. “Young man I invented the modern age”. Now I know if you’re like me, you’re thinking what an arrogant arsehole. But the problem was he was right. And what a character Henry Ford was.

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