teach them to fish (Score 1)

How to instill a desire to become self-sufficient: make reliance on others less than desirable, and reward for self-sufficiency. Good resources that approach these topics from a more general purpose angle: how about one of the various coding schools established over the last four years or so? Graduates are high-quality, having some of the traits described. Not so much on the networking side, and maybe more than general purpose, but perhaps a solution.