I tend to get sidetracked, so like the passenger trains in the US it takes me a long time to get anywhere. I think education, except musical education, which I don't have, has nothing to do with   with the music we all share. I am never going to believe that the person who knows the chemical table backwards and forwards has a better appreciation of traditional music than the person who can't read. After all, the music we like is not literal; it's oral, or for instrumental music ,aural. Likewise, I am never going to believe the "Song Catcher" schlock that the people who sing or play traditional songs are all dirt poor, illiterate, country folk who have never seen an automobile or a TV set.