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It is run by amateurs.
That it may be, but it is not really the problem.
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put the professionals in charge.
Actually, I would rather see the opposite occur; put locally elected boards in charge of, for example, the medical services. Much of the problems in this country, in my opinion, stem from the professional classes being too insulated from the public. I prefer democracy, with all of its imperfections, to technocracy with its imperfections.
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Standardize curricula and accreditation at the federal level.
I've never understood the allure of a single, mandated standardized curriculum, except to those would would demand to be the ones determining what the standardizations are. I wonder if people advocating this would be so thrilled if the standarized curriculum makers would decide that evolution shouldn't be taught, but classes should be held on literal Biblical doctrines?
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. -- Otto von Bismarck
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