Formal university settings are not the only way "education" can be conferred/obtained. Would a person who only knew apprenticeships trust someone who sat throu

Formal university settings are not the only way "education" can be conferred/obtained. Would a person who only knew apprenticeships trust someone who sat through 4 years of theoretical lectures, book learning, and "sample projects", when their expectation is that trained apprentices have worked side-by-side with masters in "the real world" for many years, doing real work that real people depended on?