Along these lines a core duty of an elder is also one of teaching. They should be paid as part-time educators if they do teach, or at the very least, money should be made available for those who need it. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Disciples are drawn away by false teachers.
Elders are to teach the truth to the flock to counter the false teaching.
If the local church kept its responsibility to teach seminary level materials, many aspects of Bible training would change. In Our Church-Governed Seminary , Herman Hanko has written about why a seminary should be under the control of the church. He does an excellent job of treating this subject. Therefore, his arguments are not repeated here. Most of his points are on the mark.