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I doubt it.
"Academically trained" implies and requires a standard that those who are so trained can be measured against. This necessitates a rigid structure that cannot be deviated from, else one is not truly academically trained in the sense of the word. This is what being an accredited school means.
Also, I have attended more than one university.
To break the rules of academia, you must first know the rules. The great painters like Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, and Arshile Gorky knew this and had formal art training before deviating from it.
My example is taken from one subject area (art).
Learning the rules gave painters, like Jackson Pollock and Matisse, the skills and imagination necessary to break/deviate from them. Picasso was the son of a very respected art professor. Pollock studied with a very prominent artist. Gorky was an art professor himself. How do you explain all this?
Understanding rules does not in any way endow someone with skill and imagination. That is my point, and that was the point I made my first post in this thread.
It's a false correlation.
So you are saying that skill and imagination are not learned? It's inherent in some individuals and not others?
I'm going to agree with Neve and have to say it refreshing to read something a bit more positive about higher education on this forum.
I hope I didn't speak too soon.
I decided not to answer the question on being "cultured, refined, and enlightened" because it is a very snobby question to ask and it gives higher education a bad reputation. The answer is also subjective. In undergrad, I took several art history classes, including a class with a very famous art historian, yet that hardly makes me cultured, refined, or enlightened.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
The first thing that came to mind about this thread was this, 1 Corinthians 1:25-31
I will always choose the Holy Ghost's teaching over men...
Colossians 2:8-9
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
I will always choose the Holy Ghost's teaching over men...
Colossians 2:8-9
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
I am accountable to Yahweh, you wish to judge my spirit, by all means... but your works, and any other works of men will never be His; every prophet only knowing as far as Yahweh allowed them. You're not greater than He, nor any of His prophets. Yahweh will fashion His will according to His desire.
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