libertarianism re credentials: a long-held attitude for me

This week I've sent out some emails to important educational organizations such as: American Association School Librarians; School Nutrition Association; National Association of School Boards, National PTA, and the NEA.

I expressed what is still basically my opinion regarding education, eleven years ago in a Usenet Newsgroup Post (thank God Google did its usual super-competent job cataloging Usenet):

no govt credentialism & free access to all degrees--imagine the greatness of such a land - Google Groups

Educators apparently tend to assume that reduction of government interference re who has to learn what where in order to practice an occupation, will harm them. If they thought more deeply, they would see how such reduction in government interference could help them as opposed to harm them.

Reprint of the 11-year old post:

Note: below the post, is a copy of my June 2014 email to World Cup ref Rizzoli, showing the part of the text of the email having to do with govt meddling in credentialism. 

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NO GOVERNMENT MANDATED CREDENTIALISM AND FREE CONVENENIENT ACCESS FOR EVERYONE TO EVERY ACADEMIC DEGREE--IMAGINE THE GREATNESS OF SUCH A SOCIETY

Once upon a time, in the land of Nod, all of Nod's citizens had a
chance to study law and medicine and all the other skills taught in
graduate school using the internet intranets and other methods.
 
Nod's government did not interfere by dictating that persons would  be
allowed to practice a given occupation only if that person attended
one of the government's few expensive pet government approved schools.
 
 Nod's government stayed out of the issues such as what should be
taught and how at the various schools.
 
The native inherent genius energy and capacity for hard work of the
people of the land of Nod, which is still evident through simply
browsing the internet today,  was unleashed in those days.
 
All kinds of excellent efficient reasonably priced schools of every
kind sprang up under the Nod government's policies.
 
 There was no such thing in Nod in those days, as a person who was not lazy, whose talents went unutilized and whose potential was not
fulfilled.
 
As a result the citizens of Nod enjoyed access to high quality cost
efficient goods and services in every conceivable field, and the
access to such increased their productivity even further.
 
The talent unleashed by the Nod government's restraint, resulted in
all kinds of new discoveries and advances in all kinds of fields.
 
The money that the citizens of Nod earned and saved and invested, went far in the world in those days, because since the people of Nod were so skilled, and such achievers, their currency was always in demand because people wanted to have it so as to be able to buy things from the people of Nod and employ and pay the people of Nod, and visit the land of Nod as tourists; and to compound this for even the better, the world had confidence in the future of Nod's society which added further to the value of the Noddar the currency of Nod.
 
In those days no nation desired to aggress against Nod because Nod was a respected model state that the nations of the world strove to
imitate.
 
But then Satanael rose to power over the land of Nod and the land was darkened, because Satanael demanded that the citizens of Nod, attend expensive schools with a highly limited number of training spots
available,  as a prerequisite to them being allowed to practice
various occupations.
 
Satanael decreed, that no citizen of Nod, would be allowed to cook
food, unless he earned a graduate degree in cooking, which cost
$100,000 and took four years to obtain; and said degree had to be
obtained from schools run by Satanael's cronies, which were in their
words "unfortunately" only able to train 112,000 citizens of Nod each
year in the art of cooking.
 
Similarly, those who worked in the building trades, and the tailors,
and the taxi drivers, and the doctors, and the teachers, and the
dancers, and the lawyers, in fact persons of every occupation, were
required to attend costly time consuming schools in order to be able
to do things; and the damage was compounded by the fact that there
were so few training spots available in these schools run by
Satanael's cronies.
 
Nod as a result, degenerated physiologically as its people became sick in body, psychologically as they became sick in mind, and spiritually as they became sick in soul.
 
Nod with its new restrictions hurtled downhill economically and
militarily, and increasingly Nod became despised in the world.
 
While Nod so to speak burned, its conservative libertarian leaders
railed at redistributive taxation--but inexplicably they ignored the
clear affront to their principles that Satanael's new meddling in what
people had to "learn" where constituted.
 
As prices of goods and services skyrocketed while their quality
plummeted due to Satanael's new credentialist restrictions, the
citizens of Nod grew unable to afford basic things in life without
government assistance and clamored for such assistance; but the
conservative libertarians scornfully labeled as "liberals" those who
would tax the people of Nod and use the revenue to help them to pay
for goods and services that were once affordable but that Satanael's
decrees had made astronomically priced and out of reach.
 
Meanwhile Nod's liberal interventionists, having become closely
intertwined with the privileged few on Satanael's campuses and also
off campus who profited from Satanael's restrictions, also
jaw-droppinlgy  dropped the ball and ignored the obvious damage caused by Satanael's pedantic restrictions.
 
Noddians of all stripes fingered this problem or that problem as
culprit, but a black hole seemed to have developed in that portion of
their brains that should have been easily able to apprehend the
obvious truth, that Satanael's occupational licensing restrictions
were demolishing the nation.
 
Sound familiar? It should. Because the golden age of Nod is the USA
that the USA government refuses to allow to exist; and the degeneracy of Nod is the USA as it exists today.

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Subject: World Cup Ref Nicola Rizzoli: what Id do if I were Brazil prez, original telekinetic poetic prayers, theological & soccer insights 
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:31:26 -0400...

World Cup Referee Referee Nicola Rizzoli: 

...If I were President of Brazil I would present the following as a draft of my intitial ideas, assemble experts, and pick the brains of the experts with questions:
 
Initial Draft, Solutions to Brazil Problems
 ...
 5. Get the government out of being involved in matters such as: who has to learn what where in order to practice some occupation. Leave the matter of grading/licensing the excellent schools and professionals such would produce up to the residents of the nation and the private sector. such decisions up to the freedom of the citizens.
...
 The above plan is based upon some of my current beliefs: ...the worst economic sin is to fail to make use of the talents of the people...