“…Self-Help, a book by Samuel Smiles [20], published in 1859 in England and in 1860 in the USA, had a significant influence on Sakichi Toyoda, as it discussed and justified the value of hard work, discipline, frugality, learning, and selfimprovement. Meanwhile, it was exactly in England, where the international movement for the spread of university education (university extension) originated; it promoted the value of general and professional education and gradually became widely known, including in Russia [21].…”