People do actually need to be taught how to think. Human nature is not to think, but to obey: You learn by emulating and copying and obeying your parents, your authority figures, your teachers, your societal norms. Do that, and you have a happy life, usually. Until you're not longer needed, at least.

"Thinking" is something that harms that dull and regressive ambrosia. Even among those who think, asking "why" instead of "how" is even more disruptive and harmful. Copernicus talked shit about how the world was in the universe, and everyone hated him for thinking. Hayley thought about math, and they mocked and mocked in return. Tesla died a cold, forever-alone virgin because he asked "is there a better way?".

Meanwhile Money made scads of his namesake by repeating what the people funding his research wanted to hear. Who cares how many millions his research has harmed?