Overstaffing Quotes
In the older Communist economy companies, profit was not required so companies hired many workers to provide employment for as many as possible. Under the newer economic system companies had to become efficient and profitable. But old traditions die hard.
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.
The US Military was not always strong and at many points in U. S. history Americans did not want a large military feeling that the oceans protected America from invasion and that we should not be involved in wars in the rest of the world. This isolationist sentiment has been existent in America ever since the founding but has gotten stronger and weaker at different periods.
