How Did Andrew Carnegie Contribute To Education

Andrew Carnegie comes from a humble beginning; as to show he worked when he was a

13 year older at a factory all day long just to later study at night. Andrew Carnegie’s interest in education begins during this period of his life because they lent him books to study, but he grew up he focused mainly on businesses and money. Working as a telegraph messenger boy he gets to know his new boss, the Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, yet Carnegie later takes his bosses job. Carnegie’s new job gives him the opportunity to invest in companies what were not expected to have to much profits, however, this investments gave him the opportunity to invest in other sectors such as oil. As Carnegie grew rich he founded the first steel company in

Morgan for what is now 12.3 billion dollars. Carnegie started to change his way of thinking and wrote a book, “ The Gospel of Wealth”, in which he stated that it was the moral responsibility of the wealthy to seek for the welfare of those who didn’t had opportunities.

Carnegie’s first contribution was in 1902 when he founded the Carnegie fund for scientific research. Carnegie later on wanted to boost education and remember how a Coronel lent him

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books to read, so he decided to fund 2,509 libraries across Scotland and The United States, in addition to this he also gave 125 million dollars to The Carnegie Corporation with the purpose to aid colleges and schools. His generosity toward public libraries entertained and educated many thus some reached out to remote places at the time like Hawaii. Carnegie’s libraries are still present and have helped many Americans across all the country.

In 1911 Andrew Carnegie’s founds the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which has made great impact in today's society, being them the reason we have insulin to treat diabetics.

Everything starts when the Carnegie Corporation of New York offered a grant to Nathiel Potter, so he could study diabetes and a cure for it. When Potter died in 1919 a colleague

Since the process of extraction of insulin from canines was not that pure the Foundation helped the Canadians pair with Sansum, who later discovered how to make more pure and strong insulin. The Corporation later gave funds to the mass production of it, and by 1923 the first insulin kits began to appear saving many lives. In 1910, Andrew Carnegie gave a fund of 10 million dollars to create The Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace. This institution intends to protect and promote international cooperation by advancing knowledge and building realtions around the world.By the 1970s the endowment had been a mediator between nuclear matters reducing the risk of war, becoming now a major nonproliferation activist. The Carnigie Endowment for International Peace now

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dedicates to the research of solutions to problems that rise from technological and military advances. This researchers are extremely important because they help policy makers choose the best decisions.

Andrew Carnegie a man whose legacy and philosophy still lives. His philosophy is