of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese countere pants a result of the training that U.S.workers

received on the job.More

recently, while examing housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the plexity of the building industr y’s work.What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it.After

all, that’s how education got started.Whe n

our ancestors were hunters and gatherers

10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.Only

when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.As education improved, h umanity’s productivity potential, they could in turn afford more education.This

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