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Please don't misinterpret my post. A sufficient education does not require admission to one of the top ten MBA schools.

I agree with your comments about family-work balance. You are absolutely right.

There is nothing wrong with aspiring to be "the best," whether top ten MBA, Ph. D., or sports programs. As I'm sure we both agree, the key is the balance between hard work and attention to family, one's physical fitness, and being a responsible citizen in the community.

I still remember a time in grad school when a rather mediocre professor who had a couple too many drinks at lunch berated all the grad students for not working hard enough. He felt we should all be in the lab to at least 1 a.m. About a week later, several of us were there at 2 a.m. and wanted to take a photo and post it on his door with the words, "we are here, where the (expletive deleted) are you?" That said, we really felt sorry for him - his daughter got married and he didn't realize she had a boyfriend. The prof was both arrogant and clueless about much of what truly mattered.