Sure but for every one that a great many could not.
Poverty and high school dropouts
Correlation does not imply causality. There are plenty of poor kids, children of the proletariat, that manage to get fine educations. Blaming it all on their economic strata and ignoring their lack of the "right stuff" is just so much social justice warrior clap trap. Sure, it is easier for a rich kid, but it is still quite possible for even the poorest kid, given the a background that has developed communication skills and a love of learning.
In 2012 alone 1.1 million high school drop outs due to poverty. The ones that do make it to college, half of them drop out and never receive a degree due to poverty.
Again, correlation does not imply causality, there is way more at work here than just economics.
Oxymorons in the flesh at Berkeley in California. They were black mask and Marx visits them in their dreams and whispers about a workers paradise! Even though these kids have never experienced hard labor a day in their life.
You should excuse them, they mean well. Even Lenin was born into the wealthy middle-class family and embraced revolutionary socialist and was expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government. I believe it was Churchill, that sion of the ruling class, who is wrongfully credited with saying, “If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has no head.’ Thomas Jefferson credits a form of this this quip, to John Adams: “A boy of 15 who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at 20.”
Coming up for $2,000 down payment on a $50,000 truck is easy once per year (earned income credit).
That does not make the payments through.
Its a lot harder for poverty stricken teenagers with no credit history and barely enough money to feed themselves, let alone put themselves through college.
If they can write a powerful essay they can get a finest-kind education. The problem is that they not only lack what it takes to buy their way in, the also lack what it take to qualify for a full ride.
For religion, yes thats fine.
But faith does not hold water for the scientific community, so why should we be expected to have faith in them?
You are faced with a choice between obvious fairy tale and issues that are more complex than you are prepared to comprehend (creationism vs. comparative anatomy and embryology). The question boils down to: Is it more sensible to believe in magic, or to accept, on actual authority, rational explanations that the evidence indicates you would understand were you better educated? Clearly the best thing to do is to obtain the requisite education, but if you can't (for whatever reason) it is best to take it on authority from those who have done so. When you want to know how your car works do you consult your mechanic or your pastor? If you need to deal with severe bleeding do you go to the Emergency Room or to your church? If you want to understand the diversity of life is it not best to consult the consensus of the Evolutionary Biologists and similarly take it on that authority that Evolution happens?