Some companies understood the value of maintaining their own education.

Every so often I like to link this:

Tektronix: "The Spirit of Tek"

https://vintagetek.org/opb-oregon-experience-the-spirit-of-t...

The video can be found when one looks around some.

Tek, under the leadership of Howard Vollum, literally built the whole region around it up. People could walk in off the streets and end up designing products, in sales, even doing a startup that Tek would help to fund.

I am a product of that culture, and learned a freaking ton from that place and the people who were in and around it.

When Howard Died, the private equity game chopped it all up and it's a shadow of what it once was.

Investments in the local people, partnering with schools, other manufacturers, all add up.