From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!furuta
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: "re: Education as a right"
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.164
Posted: Wed Nov  3 01:03:15 1982
Received: Thu Nov  4 02:17:41 1982
References: cbosgd.2774

The notion of a "free university" to provide retraining is not as far
fetched as some might think.  An NBC television program of a year or so back
made the point that it is somewhat an American notion for companies to view
their workers as interchangable components--to be discarded when no longer
needed.  The program contrasted this notion with the view apparently taken
by European corporations (I think that the example given was in Germany)
which consider retraining of employees to be a part of doing business (and a
moral obligation to their society).  At the time of the report, there were
about as many unfilled electronics-related jobs in California as there were
unemployeed manufacturing-related workers in the midwest.

			--Rick