However, employees for the right type- means little in the absence of training. It has been aptly pointed out that the lesson of japan is experience may be that manpower cannot be sufficiently and adequately trained for the demanding specialized skills modern technologies need by schooling alone. However… schooling can greatly facilitate the absorption of in-service training and on – the-job day-to-day learning which must be the main source of skills in the workplace during the four long decades of work-life after schooling. And the transmission of the accumulated skills and know-how in the workplace may be most effective in an egalitarian surrounding. Rather than in the relatively rigid social stratification of occupations characteristic of south asia or in the detailed work specifications of modern labour-union contracts typical of some western countries.