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Dr. Ken Yohn has been teaching in colleges and universities in Japan, France, Germany, Poland, and the United States for over 30 years. In 2015 he was a full-time research scholar in residence at the University of Science and Technology in Lille, France, where he taught courses on the social structure of cyberspace for the School of Telecommunications and Engineering. Ken is currently a professor and the chair of the department of history and politics at McPherson College in Kansas, and just completed his 21st year at that school. At McPherson, Ken teaching a course on the history of the automobile and the role of technology as an agent of social change. His current project for the college is a 6-part summer school webinar about how the automobile has transformed the world titled “Wheels of Change: How the Automobile Shaped our Lives.”
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
“Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you but it’s most important that you do it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.” – Sigmund Freud
CAREER & LIFE CHALLENGES
Having to figure out how to repair his own car, which changed his interaction with vehicles in a profound way.
FIRST SPECIAL VEHICLE
1970 240 Z
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
When it comes to automotive restorations spend a lot of time choosing your project and don’t go on impulse.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
The Automobile and American Life by John Heitmann
Ways of the World: A History of the World’s Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them by M.G. Lay
PARTING WORDS OF WISDOM
Life is not a test run. You just got to get out there and break some things.
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