>>13502349Not really. "Lots of funding" has never really been an issue for the government so much as sustaining that funding over a longer period of time. If strong outside competition doesn't present itself internal competition isn't the hardest thing to find. Reestablishing education standards is harder but really just boils down to hacking away all of the things in "education" that aren't in the least bit about educating. A culture that value has feels pride in the nation its a part of comes naturally once you end the government subsidization of mandates that run counter to that idea; it's not destroyed currently so much as it is heavily suppressed.
It's not a complex thing to recreate, there's just a lot of straightforward work that needs to be done.