Reply #34: Nobody at my elite private schools were on scholarships [View All]

[...of J.Temperance]

Everybody's parents did in fact have to pay....but that's beside the point.

The point is, that the vast majority of my fellow students did indeed work hard and study and pass their exams.

I also never said that poor people should just "pull themselves up by their frayed bootstraps", I'm NOT heartless.

There are plenty of routes for the poorer in society to go to night school or enroll at a college, they CAN get financial assistance from outside organizations in order to help them to get a better education.

The poor need personal motivation, they can get assistance, but also they have to understand that they need to begin to help themselves as well.

If someone is born into poverty, why on earth would they want to remain in such circumstances all their lives and even worse bear children and bring said children up in poverty?

Surely they should WANT to better themselves in order to be able to give their children a better quality of life than they had....isn't that what being a responsible and forward-thinking adult is ALL about?