Such reasoning is analogous to the thought processes of the man who decided to stop using ammunition in his gun because he never hit anything. Obviously, there are other, more effective adjustments that could have been made. So we are left with those few who constitute Plato's wise. They view education as a midwife to knowledge rather than a progenitor. But this utopian idea is the hallmark of most brands of epistemology.
Rationality works much slower than most people tend to think, and even then, fallibly.
Aristotle has observed, It might be supposed that there was some single method of inquiry applicable to all objects whose essential nature we are endeavoring to ascertain. In that case what we should seek for would be the scientific method. For the wise, it may be that process often takes precedence over product, and knowledge via scholarship is an end in and of itself. The wise first look outward, absorbing existing knowledge within the research domain. Second is the experiencing phase in which the seeker for truth looks inward, owning those ideas congruent with his or her perceptual field.