Quentin R Skrabec 
William McGuffey 
Mentor to American Industry

Thanks to William Holmes Mc Guffey, frontier America A’s literacy rate was the world’s highest, producing four generations of American leadership in the arts, science, and engineering. In his much-loved series of "readers, "A" Mc Guffey revolutionized education in America, merging basic principles with classic readings. Throughout Prof. Skrabec A“s research on American industrialists, the name William Mc Guffey kept popping up. William Mc Guffey was clearly the mentor of many of America A“s greatest capitalists. Almost all had been educated using the Mc Guffey Reader and developed their belief systems in one-room schoolhouses. Now his story, too, is told.