Administrative Overhead Quotes
Jefferson is the hero of the “small government” enthusiasts of modern times. In his day it was the conservative Federalists who wanted a larger government while the Jeffersonians, the radicals of the day argued for smaller government. Jefferson not only favored smaller government, but he actually cut the size of the Federal workforce something which in modern times no president has done except for William Clinton.
He confuses modernity and religion. Muslims who live in a modern world have the same degree of bureaucracy then the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and other religions do. The Muslims of America have the same degree of paperwork as other Americans, and the Turkish bureaucracy has as much filing and other paperwork as countries where the majority of people are of different religions. Historically, when England and France and other Christian countries were in the Dark Ages, Islamic bureaucrats kept Western and Eastern knowledge alive, and when the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the known world, they almost collapsed under their very heavy bureaucracy.
The United States has the highest ratio of educational administrators and staff to actual teachers of any nation on Earth. Until the beginning of the 20th Century, the term “principal” meant “principal teacher”. One of the teachers of a school was chosen as the principle teacher and he or she would teach as well as supervise the other teachers. My the 21st Century, most principals had assistant principals, counselors, curriculum, security personnel and few of them ever teach students. Kantor’s suggestion was to have educational administrators also teach for some part of their time to increase the teacher student ratio and give administrators current actual classroom experience.
