How to solve the lack of qualified teachers?

This article appeared in de Pers, 11-9-2007. This is a typical example of a manager that has some crackpot theories about society that he applies indifferently to all sorts of problems. I highlight two lines of reasoning.

1) Education is important because it is necessary for economic growth.
This economic criterium replaces/neglects the original idea that eduaction is important because:
a. The human being is in essence a living being that can by learing use his reason and therein find his highest actualization. In the classical view 'all men have the desire to understand' (Aristotle, Metaphysics).
b. Education as a precondition for democracy. Democracy presupposes that each indiviudal can put his reason to good use. The American founding fathers stressed the importance of eduaction for a good functioning democracy.

2) 'Well understood egoism' (eigenbelang) and immigration
The author argues that because of the lack of teachters and nurses we will import working power from other countries to do this skilled labour following he principle of well understood egoism. People are treated here as things, a resource, like oil or copper: they are imported only because of their properties, their skills, not because they are human beings (see Marx idea of alienation). This 'economization' of immigration also denies the dimension of hospitality to strangers, so important in the classical and christian tradition. It also disposes of the idea of a home. People are at 'home' where economic demands brings them.