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But the actual art market is nonsense - it's speculators using greater fool theory. It is in this sense that Jeff Koons is arguably a genius, or at the very least someone capable of playing the game as it exists to near perfection.

Art is a matter of taste, financial advice much less so. I can't imagine education in art affecting what you like, unless you only care about what others think of your taste.

You mean to tell me you don't believe in acquired taste?

A person who spent years studying art was necessarily introduced to much more of it than someone who didn't.

Many people would say that coffee is an acquired taste. Are you saying that people who don't like coffee are in the wrong?

No no no. I am -not- pinning this on "education". Note: a divergence between the world views (in a comprehensive sense) between elites and those who cater to their cultural consumption and the rest.