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sakky -- your many paragraphs do not adduce any arguments. you just repeatedly assert that people at MIT and Caltech are motivated mainly by money, but you're wrong. no matter what their parents think, many of the best students at MIT and caltech genuinely care about becoming great thinkers, and would gladly give up a high-paying job for that
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No, I never said that they were motivated
solely by money. I am saying that they are motivated by
career concerns, of which money is one piece.
And besides, like I said, you have the causation confused. You say that MIT and Caltech students care about being great thinkers. But ask yourself - how did they even come to care about this in the first place? In almost all cases, it was because their parents taught them to care about education from a young age. But why did their parents do that?
I'll make the point even more salient. Ben, imagine if your parents never bothered to teach you the value of education, and in fact, taught you that all schooling is just a waste of time and money. What are the chances that you would nonetheless value being a great thinker? What are the chances that you would have gone to Caltech? I am going to go with 0%, and I don't think I will be far off. Your desires - like everybody else's here - are strongly shaped by your parents.