Right, but the original article was saying the education system is bad for those people, and my point is your original comment wasn't elitist, it was a valid response to the complaint in the original article.
Also, I don't think the christ-figure of apple corp is in the same bracket as the discoverer of penicillin and the author of wealth of nations, but I don't imagine arguing about that is going to get us anywhere. Just wanted to register my dissent.