I've worked in education, and spend a good deal of time working with folks who are in dire straits.
The hard fact that a community where our 'median commenter' is above the median in the general population hates to realize is that roughly 1/3 or so of all people are just not remotely the type of person who can do the abstract meta-cognition to see they're being manipulated.
No amount of education will actually make them see something to abstract for them to grok.