What you really need to look at is how did they grow up?? A household that values education?? Plenty of immigrants from early 20th century that came to the US

What you really need to look at is how did they grow up?? A household that values education?? Plenty of immigrants from early 20th century that came to the US now have successful kids/grandkids because they valued education. Computers are now cheap and you can get lots of free knowledge on the Internet and at the library (MIT has free classes). There are no excuses. We need to stop with the victim mentality if we are ever going to progress.