An educated workforce may be attractive to some employers, but job oriented economic development policies are more important. Education is for job training. However, educational systems should provide the skills needed for a person to be able to adapt to a changing environment. Education should enable a person to contribute to a democratic society. Corporations are too influential in the educational systems.
Schools exist to promote the public welfare.
Corporations exist to make a profit for some stockholders. Many corporations see labor as an objectto be used, then discarded. Students, as future workers, become objects. Corporate training requirements are for short run purposes, educational systems should prepare individuals to function for lifetimes. Corporations successfully received many tax breaks and financial concessions in the 1980s.