Did you know that one's Degree doesn't necessarily connote a higher level of intelligence. I have known and still do know of individuals black & white, who sincerely believe that just because they have a degree they are somehow more intelligent or intellectual. Their unshakable faith in the current model of education has them believe that the collegiate institutions have inculcated them with precious knowledge; Yeah (sarcasm), it's more like the institutions have imbued them with a sense of greed.  However, let us examine from where the true spirit of real education comes. I'd like to quote a few words from a book I am presently reading: (Humboldt)

"...all moral culture springs solely and immediately from the inner life  of the soul, and can only be stimulated in human nature, and never produced by external and artificial contrivances. The cultivation of the understanding, as of any man's other faculties, is generally achieved by his own activity, his own ingenuity, or his own methods of using the discoveries of others..." Education, then, must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. Even a language cannot, strictly speaking be taught, but only "awakened in the mind: one can only provide the thread along which it will develop of itself." ...he would, I am sure, have approved of their (the radical Catholics of Latin America) criticism of schools that are: more preoccupied with the transmission of knowledge than with the creation, among other values, of a critical spirit. From the social point of view, the educational systems are oriented to maintaining the existing social and economic structures instead of transforming them.

So the real spirit of education (or curiosity) springs out from within the individual and is nurtured (or supposed to be) by it's surroundings. Many times for the middle class and poor, the environment is not fecund or fertile enough to allow their curious minds to grow. They are not exposed to much of anything. In the case of blacks, their collective interest is funneled into trivial pursuits like sports, rap music videos, and the like. So life imitates art and so many of them entertain fantasies of becoming the next Tyler Perry, or the next Micheal Jordan, or the next Beyoncé. It's a shame really