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3. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IDEAL RELATION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND 
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 
A successful education system (Fig. 3.1) should have a dual aim, 
namely: 
(a) to provide well educated and/or trained persons to function in contem 
porary technology and organization production lines with a minimum of 
specific site training, and 
(b) to be at least one step ahead of the contemporary state of the science 
in order to: 
(bl) revise studies curricula according to the forthcoming technological 
changes, and 
(b2) provide actual production lines with stimuli and/or proposals for 
improvements or implementation of new techniques. 
Fig. 3.1. Schematic representation of an ideal relation between education 
and professional practice