A little Tolstoy for the quants on Wall Street

If only the smart set on Wall Street could see things as clearly as the common man:

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.'"

I'm trying to determine whether Tolstoy's remarks are the same as saying: "You can tell a Harvard man but you can't tell him much."