# Resolved: The American people should significantly decrease the number of people attending colleges.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 21, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-american-people-should-significantly-decrease-the-number-of-people-attending-colleges/514653 "2009-10-21T18:55:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-american-people-should-significantly-decrease-the-number-of-people-attending-colleges/514653/156 "2009-10-31T15:09:37Z")

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> [@rhubarbarin](#):
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> But there’s no way to measure any of this

Except by grades in a college or university course. I’m not going to claim that that’s a universally reliable measure, but yes, we can differentiate between people who just know facts and people who can analyze, synthesize and all that good stuff.

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