I don't know about all of you, but there is just no way I can envision the bottleneck of a proper education for poor people to be a few dollars on a second-hand book. I don't believe for a second that they would buy them, read them and actually be better off in this world as a result of his or her alleged higher education. I live in a country with near-free (as in beer) education all the way from preschool to university, and I don't see everyone going to school here. Your statement implies an assumption that people will educate themselves if society makes it available to them, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's not like food or cars, you know.
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I don't know about all of you, but there is just no way I can envision the bottleneck of a proper education for poor people to be a few dollars on a second-hand book. I don't believe for a second that they would buy them, read them and actually be better off in this world as a result of his or her alleged higher education. I live in a country with near-free (as in beer) education all the way from preschool to university, and I don't see everyone going to school here. Your statement implies an assumption that people will educate themselves if society makes it available to them, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's not like food or cars, you know.