Scholarships - what are they all about?

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I personally have been a recipient of financial assistance for my education for quite some time now and I feel that I owe a lot to other people. But it's not in the sense that "I owe them, thus I must pay them back" but rather "I owe them, thus I will be the best person I can be and share what I achieve with others". Apparently, some scholarship recipients do not think this way. They think that it's the responsibility of other people to give them financial assistance because those other people have to share what they have. I even read this article, personally written by a scholar, that it's the obligation of the rich to give assistance to scholars. For me, this is a twisted view of scholarship. We are recipients of scholarship because those people (who may not actually be rich but who chose to share the fruits of their hard work) chose to give it to education and not to some other form of charity. What do you think?