The best ones are, fair-minded, deliberate, servants of the hiring and promotion in the stiff academic job market. Properly taught mathematics courses in Canada and the US are deliberately-free of context and motivation. The deliberate abstinence of mathematics instruction or course design from providing a context and motivation for the discipline for fear of error leaves a vacuum. A career in education is not for intelligent people. Students may enter education programs as would be elementary or high school teachers.
Graduation leads to a series of transient jobs.
Survival not instruction is job number one in schools and colleges. The remedy for this bureaucratic numbness is to train and hire for a constant retirement rate. Central planning in a country, education system or a company with various philosophies and principles has its ups and down. The long history of China points to the rise and fall or self-destruction of strong central governments. Bureaucracy may grow old and persist in graceful ways or not.