In an ideal world the Chinese and Japanese systems could be completely scrapped and replaced with purely phonetic systems.
In an ideal world, the American educational system would be plagued by problems so trivial as the English language being poorly designed.
[Edited to add: There is non-zero value in having the history, culture, and literature built up in one's national language. Japan would never stand for abandoning Japanese and thank goodness for it -- it would be like asking America to abandon every word committed to paper before 2008. You know, minor documents like the US Constitution, collected works of Shakespeare, To Kill a Mockingbird, all that rot that our ideal world would dispense with.)
In an ideal world, the American educational system would be plagued by problems so trivial as the English language being poorly designed.
[Edited to add: There is non-zero value in having the history, culture, and literature built up in one's national language. Japan would never stand for abandoning Japanese and thank goodness for it -- it would be like asking America to abandon every word committed to paper before 2008. You know, minor documents like the US Constitution, collected works of Shakespeare, To Kill a Mockingbird, all that rot that our ideal world would dispense with.)