Certainly.
Are Calvinists, like Catholics, all hung up on formal education in universities and seminaries as qualifications to understand Scripture and to have the mind of Christ?
While it is certainly not necessary to go to a university or a seminary to understand scripture, if you are intending to take on the awesome responsibility of leading a flock, I think it is important that you spend as much time and energy as possible to study and learn as much as possible. A degree does attest to the fact that you have at least put in a few dedicated years into your profession in order to educate yourself. It is not necessary, but clearly a commitment to learning and studying is necessary.
Does studying Scripture 16 hours a day REALLY make one less prone to error or more prone to being correct?
There was a time when everyone worked 12 to 16 hours a day at their jobs. If your job is to teach scripture and theology to others, a commitment to working on that endeavor as much as the people in your congregation work at their jobs is not too much to ask, is it?
I'd rather listen to the non-scholar who lives the word than some *scholar* somewhere whose *education* is supposed to wow us.
There are scholars who live the word. They are not only living the word, but they have studied it dilligently. Are you suggesting that everyone who has a degree in Theology is somehow suspect? You quoted Strong's lexicon earlier. Do you have any idea how much time and energy he put into that project so that you could quote him?
Or indoctrinat as the case may be.