&gt; if you don&#x27;t make a deliberate choice to change something, the world around you will keep you down.<p>One of the problems is that usually poor people is a lot less educated. They don&#x27;t event know the actual value of the knowledge that they lack. So it&#x27;s quite easy that when they try to &quot;improve&quot; their situation they take ineffective or even harmful steps.<p>That&#x27;s why education is so important for a well working society. It will give a more fair start to every one even if the resources that that people have are not fairly distributed. We tend to underestimate the value of our knowledge of the world that offers our cultural background.