If a church tradition idealizes (idolizes? hopefully not) an “educated clergy” the keepers of that tradition had better be sure to guard the gate from candidates who really aren’t intelligent enough to understand what they are supposed to be talking about. Education in the hands of people who don’t or won’t understand the content of the Church’s doctrine will inevitably cause problems. First, they will misunderstand others and come to erroneous opinions about them. Second, they will tend to develop rationalizations when admitting their failure might entail an admission of their own insufficiencies. In this way, a Church becomes locked in civil war between those who understand and those who recite.

There is no other way it can work. Either the educated pay attention to quality control, or they end up being mistreated by those who are only capable of simple slogans.