Now, they look at the financial implications (the amount of debt necessary to get in and a career that is only worth about HALF what it used to be) and they don't start down the path.

If we want to attract the same caliber people to this profession that it has historically attracted, we are going to have to get the compensation back to what had been the norm for decades prior to the past few years. That will take care of the standards issue all by itself. But, in the meantime, I'm all for raising the standards too. Higher standards and higher compensation compliment each other.