This is by no means a caricature. These are the assumptions in most of the voter education campaigns I ve seen, which are not always unstated. The last especially, the having a reason to abandon such an uneducable people an attitude of despair that is really the other side of arrogance comes up all the time. And not all of it is just letting off steam. That attitude spells disaster.
All good teachers have one thing in common, which is their ability to learn.
All good preachers have one thing in common, which is their ability to listen. You want to be a good preacher and teacher, you must first know how to listen and learn. You want to teach math to public school kids, you must first know where they are coming from. Necessity is the mother of invention, desperation the mother of education. Which is the question most poor people are probably asking themselves.