<p>I won’t deny that there are a lot of stupid people out there, it’s a fact. However, innate intelligence is only a very small portion of a person’s education, there are lots of other factors like motivation, drive, curiosity that combine to form a person that has the ability to be educated. From when a child is first born, EVERYTHING is a factor: if their parents read to them, if they were in a loving, nurturing environment, if they had adult figures in their lives that supported them, etc. Not to say that it’s impossible if you’re from a lower socio economic background, but all of those things are significantly more likely to happen if you’re on the upper end. From when kindergarteners first walk into the classroom, they’re not on equal footing. So the real problem/ question, I think, is not to say that we shouldn’t educate everyone to a high level, but that we should work to provide everyone with equal opportunities and to at least have a school environment for everyone that fosters all the secondary tools necessary for education. Granted, that’s impossible to do realistically, but that doens’t mean it’s not worth working for. I’m sure we all know people that are brilliant that have terrible work ethics, and people who are about average that have strong ones. It’s not only the ability to write a great paper or do hard calculus problems, it’s the desire to do so, and that’s something that isn’t equally fostered in every zip code.</p>