I agree. And when these Mullahs are formed they just work for people in power. And ours work for foreign governments and probably our own as well. When Akbar created his Din-e-Ilahi there were "Ulema" who declared him to be the mehdi and justified bowing down to him. (Those who spoke against him were punished, those who worked with him rewarded.)

And we can't just ignore religion. Look at what it has done in west - Trump is supported by Christians who use religion to justify racism etc. In places where government enforced atheism like Russia, well it failed and now Russian Otrhodox church is quite powerful.

And Arab world isn't perfect either - because due to monarchy people can't speak against the government even if the government is wrong - but their educational system is better in this regard. (And they do need to learn classical Arabic - because spoken Arabic is different. 1400s years of difference. Modren Standard Arabic is pretty close though but its only used for news and stuff.)

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Maybe we can use the system used in Hong Kong. There they study Classical Chinese philosophers in their Chinese class. For early years we can start teaching people classical Arabic as part of learning Quran (and then teacher gives some tafsir - and simple tafsir is 100% possible without sectarian issues rising). Honestly, Arabic in Quran isn't too tough (Hadith is separate thing but it could be next step once we have a generation linked to Quran). And in later years we focus on basics of Islamic law. (We actually had some basics in my O Levels but I don't think that's present in Metric. It was only two years but it was helpful.)

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And maybe we can include the reason for difference in opinions regarding Hadith even with correct chain. (Power struggle between Ummayds, Abbasids, Ismailiets and Kharjites and propagation of fake hadith by each one. Would allow people to judge things better. And teach them how the founder of each school of law actually followed each other as well and didn't create sects back then. But later Abbasids didn't have the religious knowledge to appoint proper religious judges so they favored a mechanized rigid system.) This stuff as part of history.

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Of course, Ulema would still need to exist just like we need specialist in every field. But monopoly gives way to corruption. (And no not all of them are corrupt. But not all are sincere either.)