A slave to no hard-and-fast rules, he developed a course that is as real as the measles and twice as
much fun.
When the classes terminated, the graduates formed clubs of their own and continued to meet fortnightly
for years afterward. One group of nineteen in Philadelphia met twice a month during
the winter season for
seventeen years. Class members frequently travel fifty or a hundred miles to attend classes. One student used to
commute each week from Chicago to New York. Professor William James of Harvard used to say that the
average person develops only 10 percent of his latent mental ability. Dale Carnegie, by helping businessmen and
women to develop their latent possibilities, created one of the most significant movements
in adult education
– Lowell
Thomas
1936
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