It's not super germane to your comment, but: not everyone can be above average, but a whole lot can. Just like currently a lot more than 50% earn less than ave

It's not super germane to your comment, but: not everyone can be above average, but a whole lot can. Just like currently a lot more than 50% earn less than average. You are confusing average with median. But also, the context of the article seems to imply that he was thinking about international competition, so that "We will have the best-trained American people in the world." You just have to make sure the below average ones are somewhere else.