I don't want to diminish anyone's personal responsibility for
this behavior, but I also think that the educational system
encourages in by being too "results oriented". Instead of
encouraging students to learn "how to learn", they subject
them to a darwinian system in which grades are the
only thing that matters.

Schools provide a ?cookie-cutter? education, which compels children to vie "for petty and contemptible rewards,"
http://educationreformbooks.net/failure.htm

You see people come on this site asking for quick and
easy fixes for complex computer problems. The
"script kiddie" phenomenon is part of the same problem,
impatience.