Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Engineer, psychologist and efficiency expert Lillian Moller Gilbreth spoke to Minneapolis Tribune writer Trygve Ager in 1955 about teaching mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. She also touched on raising her 12 children, which was chronicled by two of her children in the book and film “Cheaper By the Dozen.”

She explained that her “main objective is to get the students to think.” She continued, “I think we all … should always be on the lookout for new leaders, for young people with a new slant on things. We don’t want these young people to think the past was perfect. We don’t want them to sit here and let the world go to pieces.”

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