I don't think that this is a productive way to view things.

Poor education does not simply mean underfunded schools. It also encompasses the content of their education being inadequate for helping people to actual understand the world, which encompasses the vast majority of the education in the US as regards understanding history, politics, critical thinking and humanity generally. A fancy textbook and well-paid teacher professing false history, misanthropy, and truncated critical thinking is still a poor education.

Probably the most critical error here is that you talk about their "values" and that they "like being fascists" as though these things just came from the aether or were inborn. You cannot have a functional analysis this way. Why do they have those values? Why do they like fascism? Very plainly, in most cases, they were reared to, and that is what they were educated and enculturated toward by their schools, their parents, and the media and local culture.

And of course, there is the issue that some people benefit from fascist bullshit in the short term -- or at least were led by their backwards education (etc.) to believe they would -- and some people don't, which is largely a class issue and the reason why the petite bourgeoisie has always been the popular base of fascism.

But I have to think humans have some capacity of will to rise above their social conditioning, if they're willing didn't society would never evolve or change for the better.

I strongly encourage you to read more from Marx and Engels (I'll default to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and audiobook), because the issue of society and people developing is one of the most central elements of their philosophy. In short, the development of new technology and organizational methods has had the historical effect of changing the relations of production and who the ruling class is (from agrarian patriarchs to slave masters to nobility to capitalists) and how the individual relates to society, and with all of these changes the ruling ideology changes as a byproduct of and attempt to reinforce these new relations. This also produces different values among different classes because their individual relations to production (and therefore the basic shapes of their lives and material agency) are different, and this inevitably pits different strata of people against each other.

It's not like we are waiting around for people to be born with better souls than all these people who just happen to have bad souls so that the good soul people can lead us away from this dirty and wrong world to a better one generated from their moral sensibility. Nor are we just waiting for enough people to spontaneously choose to have good souls because, you know, if everyone just agreed to be good people, we could have a good world.

We need to understand humanity as existing in a dialectical relationship with its environment, i.e. as being shaped by its environment and also with the power to reshape its environment and therefore reshape itself.