Can A Good Man Really Do Nothing?

I'm in agreement with Jason Peters' Whoring in Higher Ed, but there is a part of it that makes me angry:

I’ve served on many hiring committees over the years, and what astonishes me year after year is how poorly educated newly minted PhDs are. I’ve come to expect graduate programs to take bad care of their students (“go learn everything you can about the micropube”), but what I’m seeing now is how poorly undergraduate programs have taken care of their students.

One must sadly assume what he's doing now is actually hiring the idiots. He's probably going for the least of the idiots, but he's rewarding credentialism. The pups jump through the hoops in expectation of a reward, and he gives it to them.

Could he do something else? Is is possible to engage in radical hiring practices?
When it's completely obvious it would be better to offer the job to some random man on the street, could anyone possibly go do just that?

Maybe it's just years of reading Celia Green, but I am under the impression that many would be better off if, instead of playing the complacent whore, those who can actually see the problem and have a little power, would actually do something about it. It is a little personal too- I can't possibly know how far I could have gone in a world where academia actually was what it was supposed to be rather than this self-defeating propaganda machine.

Each shiny new propagandist knows less than the one that came before it. Dawkins isn't going to teach any up-and-coming young atheists the bible. A propagandist doesn't even have an incentive to teach anyone to read! It just complicates the job. Students might get on the internet and learn something, for crying out loud!
It only makes sense they would train people to be empty headed narcissists.