Poor, Edmund W wrote:
(It reminds me of Robert Heinlein's "Friday", in which the state of California, having noted that college graduates have significantly higher income than non-grads, officially awarded every resident of California a college degree. Needless to say, the policy did not have the desired effect.)
Chairman Mao solved this in the opposite way. He sent the university personnel out to the countryside to be farmers, and called it the cultural revolution.