I think that one needs to pull back and look at all of this from a greater distance.

If one does that, one realizes that more than half of the students at universities should not be there at all.

Universities should be about seeking truth, a place where the brightest, sharpest minds go to master that endeavor through highly challenging training.

And so a better starting point is to ask, how can we cut university enrollment by over 50 percent and encourage and nurture the ability of students who do not measure up, to admission there, to pursue alternate endeavors in trade schools or community college programs?

Until one asks that question, it really doesn't matter who all these hundreds of thousands of students are in our universities - you might as well just select the first five percent of names in the telephone book.