The Ford English school was established in 1913, a year before the five dollar day was incorporated. The school was setup to teach company immigrant workers to read, write, and speak English. The school started with twenty students and one professor. In three years there were more than 2,200 students in the school. There were 150 professors and classes were given during the day. More than 33 nationalities were among the mixed melting pot at the school. Instructors were a diverse group which included formers, clerks, and workmen from the Ford Company. All these instructors gave up there time to teach their fellow workers. On July 23, 1915 one hundred and fourteen students graduated and received their diplomas. This took them a short eight months to achieve. All the commencements were held at the school, and every class had to go into this large cauldron in a foreign costume holding a symbol indicating the country he or she came from. The ceremony ended by emerging students coming out of this cauldron with American clothing and American flags waving in their hands. The school's objective here was to break language and cultural barriers among works to increase productivity. This type of ceremony clearly shows the world how Ford built the American blue collar worker.