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hey, teachers have needs too.

This is a fucking retarded argument. Nobody has the answer to complex questions just sitting in their head. If they can't afford education, it is likely they are from a low income family, which is strongly correlated with intelligence; so the likelihood of their child becoming smart is already pretty low. Secondly it is not the person that finds the answer, it is how they apply their education and what they have learnt, and what choices they have made along the way ( such as going to university, doing a masters, doing a phd). A more realistic statement would be "what if the cure for cancer could have been found by this one guy, except he chose to go into mechanical engineering instead". The original quote is also really disrespectful to the thousands of talented and intelligent researchers who have been working on this problem for decades; if anyone was to find a cure, it would be someone who chose to go into cancer research in the first place.