While I agree to most of the aforementioned comments, i"d have to disagree that the pursuit of wealth is detrimental to the education/learning system we have today. Sure it's the ethical and romanticized train of thought, but the reality is different, I feel.

It is when the focus of education becomes acquiring wealth as opposed to the acquisition of wealth through education, that things get corrupted. When the pursuit of knowledge is displaced by the pursuit of money, things turn sour.

You'll always have the student that wants to get the high paying job to make a comfortable living for himself, no matter what field of study.

You'll alwyas have the student that wants to pursue his passion and not care about the money.

And you'll have the student that realizes that his passion can bring him money.

It is the third student that I'm referring to here where money is not "the enemy". It often drives advances in all fields of knowledge. If the "genius's " perception is that of not working for wealth but for knowlege, his achievements will be lost in his lifetime and not become useful to his present society. This perhaps may be an overly gloom assesment in this age of technology where people can "know" what you are doing, but you efforts will be worthless if not exploited in a "sellable" manner.