Coming over here, taking our jobs!

The CBI, discussing employment policy and immigration within the EU on Radio 4's Today: "Britain needs our Polish and eastern European engineers."

Forget the immigration question for a moment and ask what we in Britain were doing during the decades when these nations were languishing behind the Iron Curtain and we weren't. How did we educate our kids? To do what?

How do we educate them now, and to do what?