May be the technology behind bitcoin is hard to master without a knowledge background but for the bitcoin, you can explain it to everybody using fiat money. Just compare with people using smartphones or any other smart device, they are not even educated enough but still using it.
I remember when i discovered the erase button in the computer keyboard and how smart i felt using it despite i was too young at that time. Now my grand-mother use the same computer to contact their children without any precedent knowledge at all.
Bitcoin can be tought to anybody has or has not a bank system access that can make easy comparison and understand more better. so i think
Education is not a barrier to bitcoin, but as a bitcoiner you must be able to read and write I think that is the basic thing. Illiterate people buy and sell share through their stock broker so the same knowledge can be brought to bitcoin....
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