A lot of them may actually subscribe to this magazine. Another reason is that everyone assumes they're an expert when it comes to education. All of us should have learned three fundamental lessons over the past 10 years. First, central planning usually doesn't work. Ask the Comecon bureaucracy that once endeavored to mismanage the Soviet bloc economy.
Central planning imposes enormous direct costs.
It's inimical to flexibility and adaptability. And, it thus makes it very hard, if not impossible, to capitalize on new circumstances and a changing environment. Second, trusting individuals usually does work. It's also amazing the workable solutions to complicated challenges that people and markets can produce. Third, if Government has to intervene to safeguard clearly defined public policy goals, you'll probably do best by moving the issue to that level of Government which is closest to the challenge.