Nor, we might add, the job to the most skilled. But neither is it wise to bet on the slow horse, the weak combatant, or the incompetent practitioner. I visit a doctor who tells me every so often that he thinks that licensure for medical professionals should be abolished.
Conflict is ubiquitous.
Licensure procedures and the consequent restricted access to jobs are the price that the public pays for confidence that some pre-selection process is weeding out the most grossly incompetent and unsuited. Such a suspicion tends to rest on ignorance of history and the belief that the worst aspects of the status quo are its dominant ones. Indeed, such ignorance and pessimism motivate the dynamic in our restrictedly democratic and exaggeratedly pluralistic society of perpetual reform movements in education. Few people know anything of history and ignorance is bliss. They're no big thing.