Accentuating the parentalrole as sycophant is the insane amount of money many spend on training, equipment and travel teams in search of that Holy Scholarship.
These are the young who don't have the advantages of a stable family life, parentalrole models at home, and teachers in good private or public schools instilling in them the joy of learning.
And a society of different lifestyles spawned a group of young people who were brought up without parental discipline, without proper role models and without any sense of responsibility to or for others.