Your post is very interesting and may explain this pastor's problem. Was any opinion given as to why people with advanced degrees are "goofy"?
Here's what else the article says: (follow the link)
["Unfortunately, we don't know why," says study author Cheryl Koopman, PhD. "Possibly it has to with the nature of the kind of work that the highly educated do." Koopman and principal investigator Robert Matano, Ph.D., originally set out to research if interventions--such as treating alcoholism or learning better coping strategies--could help treat mental health problems at work. The link to education came up unexpectedly.
Overall, those with advanced degrees fell into the 32nd percentile, 18 points below the national average. Those who had recently completed their graduate programs were at greatest risk for mental health problems. The researchers attribute this to a lack of experience in coping with life's hardships.
Interestingly, women with advanced degrees seemed to be doing better than men when it came to mental health. However, the researchers noted that the study was very limited in scope, having examined only a single company. Further studies would be needed to confirm the findings. ]
Having been through the process myself, I would say that unless its some sort of technical degree; engineering, mathematics, biology, history(perhaps), you are following a course of indoctrination, in which you much twist personal experience to fit the professor's belief system to graduate. People do this in the hopes of making more money, then they find that it doesn't pan out.
We need to radically rethink, our entire education, and hiring systems. If we are educating for the sake of future employment, (or better yet, entrepreneurs), let's be up front about this and from the very beginning use small business creation as a context for the structure of the educational program. Currently this is impossible because virtually all of the educators, at every level, know absolutely nothing about business. It is insane that as a population we insist on our business people to go through a system which is dominated by people who's livelihoods depend on toeing the line to any local politics currently the rage at their institution, rather than having anything to do with creating real wealth. We ask our children to go through 16 + 2 years of indoctrination at the feet of parasites, then expect them to be prepared to create and contribute real wealth.