There's a false dichotomy between educated and uneducated which is perpetuated by schools, indeed may be their entire point of existence. There's also a dichoto

There's a false dichotomy between educated and uneducated which is perpetuated by schools, indeed may be their entire point of existence. There's also a dichotomy between exploring an idea and solving a problem. Being ignorant is less good than being informed, but informing yourself is expensive. Becoming complacent due to your perceptions of your intelligence is foolish. Not exploring something because it's not in your skillful sweet spot can lead to failure to innovate. So, there's nothing surprising here. If you educate yourself more you'll tap into a wealth of knowledge about how to get things done more powerfully. If you use that as an excuse to step away from solving problems then you'll likely solve fewer problems, so hopefully you'll investigate things with greater theoretical validity (or else why bother?). More people using tools means that more people will become more informed and get more stuff done. Tools should not be made as to be inaccessible. But a technique or idea often begins as inaccessible and there may even be no way to make it more accessible. This does not mean that it is invalid and it may be that it gives people who master it greater power. Whenever learning, don't learn for learning's sake and don't learn to meet some end point defined by your teacher---seek what the master's sought. They often are solving real, practical problems and by training yourself to look for that perspective you can understand how to arm yourself with their knowledge in the way that they did. A person who generates knowledge in effort to solve a hard problem is usually one who is more than willing to throw that knowledge away if it does not serve them. Many problems are no longer as hard of problems as they once were. This is directly due to the fact that advanced technologies have become increasingly approachable and because larger bases of people have improved their mental technologies so as to use them. This is a great thing, but it's not an end state---harder problems still exist and gains can be made by tackling them. People can learn more things and more powerful ideas can be made the foundations of new mental technology to improve anyone's ability to solve problems. None of this is controversial.