How to educe the ambition?

It is said that Japanese people are satisfied with today's situation and do not make effort to study and work. And they prefer easy going rather than hard study or job. I think its main reason is that we Japanese lack chance to know a man with great ambition or great job because the formal school do not have such a course and non-formal school is just focused on preparing for entrance exam to higher school.There may be a huge hole or hollow inside our mind,lack of ambition,I think.