John Kleinig, “Oratio, Meditatio, Tentatio: What Makes a Theologian?” CTQ 66 (2002): 255-268.
Making a theologian is not something we do, as if we could only get the right system/curriculum in place then we would make perfect theologians (or pastors).
The classical curriculum was still intact in the Missouri Synod in the late nineteenth century. When Francis Pieper learned of the negotiations in 1891 to reorganize the Gymnasia in Germany, he expressed his concern that “a solid foundation in the ancient languages is assured. We must never permit our Gymnasia to deteriorate to where Latin is no longer rightly taught and thus allow ourselves to be cut off from the ancient church… It is also self-evident that we should also diligently study Greek and Hebrew, because we must be able to understand Scripture according to the original texts”; see Francis Pieper, The Church and Her Treasure: Lectures on Justification and the True Visible Church, tr. O. Marc Tangner (St Louis: The Luther Academy, 2007), 250-251.