(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here are 3,000 for you. First American manufacturing does more with fewer people (HT: AEI’s Mark J. Perry):
Okay good- ready for the next one? Heritage chart showing that the American education massively increases employment relative to the student count:
But it’s all fine because the kids are learning so much surrounded by so many adults compared to the past right? Er, no:
Jay P. Greene's Blog 
[…] long for folks to make the comparison with K-12 public education. See Matt Ladner's post here. We could add a whole raft of other pieces making the same point See Andrew Coulson at Cato, here […]