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Would a returning of a type of 'old' classical education specifically in primary and high school help?

Where would you get the teachers? The smart women who made the old system run these days work in commerce in industry.

Excellent point; I hadn't thought of that, and don't recall hearing it discussed in any of the "educational quality" debates.

Teacher quality has been mentioned, often in the context of the difficulty of firing bad teachers in many U.S. school systems.