yes. If you believe that doing the alim/alimah course = piety,religeousness, then im afraid to say hazrat, well, i wont say what I think. knowledge does not = piety. Knowledge does not = having the CORRECT understanding of deen. tarbiyah is something that is so important,yet not enough importance is given. doing the alim/alimah course may get one onto the basics. not everyone enrols into the alim/alimah course because they want to. some are made to. and thus the results you get from each person will depend on their own zeal,their tarbiyah both by parents and teachers etc. if a man is a non alim, and his wife a 'alimah', even then the husband can do tarbiyah of his wife if the husband is religeous himself.