There are arguments on both sides. High points in human inquiry featured independant teachers supportd by students as in Socrates and 14th century Paris. Institutionalization and formal curricula can be big mames for make-work efforts by otherwise mediocre faculties.
For sure. . .and well and good for those 'in time' or 'high times'. . .but a tradition certainly not carried by a majority representing Education today.
Instead we find an intellectual climate that favors a political elitism that not only borders. . .but more often, crosses the border to an intellectual and political tyranny that stands in total opposition to honest - fair and reasoned - inquiries into 'truth'. . .and a tyranny, of course, that excludes any educational framework for exploring values/virtue or other 'notions' of personal/social or community ideals.
No Socratic 'humble pride' for these individuals.
Rather we see what appears as an arrogant and intellecutaul false pride exhibited those who live in the higher eschelons of Education. . .as they determinedly move their profession further away from any and all, traditions of excellence.