Q&A

Despite dozens of honorary doctorates and two professorships from the world??s leading scholarly bodies, Lech Walesa does not carry an engineering diploma. The world??s most famous electrician (one of the many clich??s routinely applied to the founder of Solidarity Trade Union and the ex-President of Poland) was educated at a technical school in the town of Lipno and never made it to the university. The reason? As one of his American biographers asserts, his parents ??could not afford the fees??.