Philosophical education is garbage

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Refute this for me:
At some point in history there was the First philosopher (many would consider Socrates, but who the fuck really knows). This guy couldn't have been educated in the field of philosophy because he was the first, though he was likely well-versed in arts, crafts, politics, rhetoric etc. So he did what he could and formulated some principals. Then he took a student (Plato??), who was the Second philosopher. This guy learned what he could from the First, but, surely, it was not a philosophical sort of education, because the First himself was ignorant in philosophy. Then came the Third, Fourth, Hundredth, and so on. Yet, they all studied from an ever-increasing body of works, but those works came from the men who previously studied from philosophically ignorant men, so their philosophical knowledge was doomed to be rooted in methodical ignorance. Because, unlike, for example, science, objective (as far as the field of science is concerned), detached from an individual knowledge is not present in philosophy, and cannot be compounded upon each other, a man who reads any one work of philosophy is equal in foundational understanding of philosophy to the man who read them all, and both are equal to the Second philosopher (if we assume unbroken chain of passed knowledge, which is flimsy but irrelevant).

tl;dr Philosophy is a flawled methodology, it teaches nothing but brain clutter, and should be regarded on a purely personal level, like poetry. We should stop wasting time on meme philosophers and concentrate on arts, literature, science, and all-around polymathy