This is an issue of double edged sword.
Yes highering with higher degree of quality students is a good thing, but often what many people consider the golden age are born by people outside of the industry that consider it a hobby and passion.
As an example of another industry is NHL. Whenever a few great hockey stars come from a town it seems that town tries to train the 'Next Gretsky". Often this push increases the overall skill of the playerbase, but drives out personal passion and achievement.
Miyamoto is a person with a passion of ideas. These ideas didn't spawn from an education in game development, but an inspiration of love.
We get on the industry case of lack of innovation or some matter or another, but when it comes down to it the reason why these problems occur is because companies are highering from the same trained(read formula) pool.
If you look back as to where the "Great Game Designers" come from you will find that most of them didn't go to school for game designing or an area that focuses much on games at all. Though you do find a few that do.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
