text: The one thing that we can rely on from educators is the never-ending pursuit of mediocrity.  Whatever gets accomplished in this world is done by high-achieving individuals.  That is the world the real world works.  Our educators are protected by bureaucratic systems and public sector unions so that the mediocre performers get the same pay and pension as the top teachers.
  The communists tried to make that system work in Eastern Europe and we all know how that turned out.