This is the result of an education system that has been foisted on this nation and its been that way since Rockefeller and Carnegie pulled American farmers into their factories in the early 1900s. In 1902, John D. Rockefeller created the General Education Board at the ultimate cost of $129 million. The GEB provided major funding for schools across the nation and was very influential in shaping the current school system.
As Rockefeller put it, “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”
Even more compelling are the words of Frederick T Gates, business advisor to Rockefeller: “We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians….” https://www.jetsetmag.com/exclusive/business/nation-workers-public-education-dummying-labor-force/
Ambitions right now are taught to work. I understand this as people pursue to be a doctor, engineer, businessman. Plus, I see the thing where when people skip school and get famous through the music+entertainment industry, they are either being put down because they didnt finish school or considered as unique.