Yes, there's education and then there's degrees. In my experience, anybody is capble fo getting a degree, but education is optional and largely up to the student. The only degrees that demand an actual ability to think and research and formulate are PhDs.

I find colleges and universities are, at this point, largely extractive, dumping people into adulthood with massive debts and no employable skills and I am through supporting them in any way. That doesn't mean I don't value an education or the ability to think critically, I'm just using my ability to think critically to realize that much of higher education is a scam, and the role of a degree is socially determined.