The following quote from Jerome is rather apropos, 1600+ years after he wrote this:
Husbandmen, masons, carpenters, workers in
wood and metal, wool-dressers and fullers, as well as those artisans who make
furniture and cheap utensils, cannot attain the ends they seek without
instruction from qualified persons. As Horace says
Doctors alone profess the healing art
And none but joiners ever try to join.
The art of interpreting the scriptures is the
only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters. To quote Horace again
Taught or untaught we all write poetry.
The chatty old woman, the doting old man, and
the wordy sophist, one and all take in hand the Scriptures, rend them in pieces
and teach them before they have learned them. Some with brows knit and
bombastic words, balanced one against the other philosophize concerning the
sacred writings among weak women. Others—I blush to say it—learn of women what
they are to teach men; and as if even this were not enough, they boldly explain
to others what they themselves by no means understand. (Jerome, Letter LIII. To
Paulinus)
