Retraining and Education

Since we move towards a more technological society, the significance of technical education seems apparent. There are two aspects to the educational solution. The first deals along with the education of the young people yet in school today. This is significant that our society trains young people in adequate numbers to design, create, and operate the future automated factory and to deal with the other technologies that shall be so important to our economics process and well-being.

The second aspect of the educational solution includes the retraining of the workers that are displaced by new technologies. But some problems will arise with regard to retraining. First who will pay the money for retraining because technical training is costly? Another difficult issue involves the obligation of the worker after the retraining. If the company provides the retraining, and enhance the skill and education level of the worker, is the worker obligated to remain with the similar employer or move to another geographical area to seek employment? The worker might feel that the organization sponsoring the retraining course must also provide employment in the same geographical position.

At last, a significant question in the education and retraining issue is: where does society obtain the trained & modern laboratory apparatus to accomplish the retraining? Several of the new technologies in which training is needed are still emerging, and the teachers who have been exposed to and educated in these fields are not available. How does society achieved the teachers who are currently in the fading technical fields so that they in turn might retrain the workers to be productive in the emerging technical fields?