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I think the root problem is that administators without practical skills are running everything.

Since they got by without any practical skills, they don't value such things. Now, they want to eliminate them entirely from the educational system.

The managers are at war with the individual contributors, and they don't understand that someone has to actually do work, or the system will collapse.




https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Revolution-What-Happening-...

> Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called “managerialism”; rule by managers.

In 1941.




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