RebE, thanks for supporting the idea of the all-knowing, not-asking students. As I mentioned before, there is a worldwide google-induced decrease in curiosity, so we need to guard for this.
Hafetz Haim brings a similar idea on Chacham being opposite to Rasha rather than Tzaddik in the context of his generation of haskala and trying to protect against it. He says (in probably a shocking for a “frum” person way): some say – you need to be frum, frum, and then klug (i.e. you need a double yirat shamaim to allow you access knowledge, otherwise it is too dangerous), and I am telling you: you should be klug, klug, and then frum. Hope you don’t accuse Hafetz Haim of open orthodoxy