Treasures for the "Unlearned"

Some teach a person needs formal education and say there will always be danger of Christians who haven't been to seminary going off on tangents and doctrinal error, getting off-balanced, etc.... (At least "that kind of person" KNOWS he hasn't been officially schooled so will be more receptive to correction.) I think it was Mommy who said the danger lay in the exact opposite direction, in pride of academic learning. And she'd been to seminary so knew what she was talking about.

Actually, I get afraid for laymen and people who've not been to Bible School when there's mention of the use of concordances and lexicons and Greek and Hebrew origins and Hebrew History and developments of various translations, etc...; almost sounds like "You can't enjoy Christianity to the fullest unless you have head knowledge!" What about people who can't read or write? Can God not give them insights more profound than He gives those with more education? Jesus' birth was announced to shepherds, after all!

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[I was just reading what I wrote and will negate the above paragraph. Perhaps excitement in talking about cross references, searching scripture, etc..., is something God can actually use to convey to others the fact that Bible Learning can really be fun--something God can make so interesting to a person that he actually loses himself in it!]