I'm sure you could have as could anyone given the financial freedom and support to do so. Getting a degree is a measure of commitment and academic rigor not necessarily intelligence. Ignorance and stupidity is a blissful unawareness of the world, people and surroundings you encounter and a lack of imagination to learn, it's a choice for most. Not something I would consider as necessarily a meritorious badge. But each to their own, you do you, I don't care.