Ok then how does one become a philosopher without schooling wise one?
The tenants of philosophy can be taught but not philosophy itself. You can be graded on how many old dead white guys you can name like Socrates and Cicero... or how many theories and quandries you can name, but actually being a philosopher cannot be 'taught' because at its core it requires questioning things and trying to unravel the secrets of the universe to become one with it in understanding. If you are simply asking the questions on page 44 of some book you are reading, you are not really philosophizing at all.
Although there are people that are highly educated through doctorates and institutions like Noam Chonsky who can lecture and debate, there are also worldly educated men like Penn Jillette who travel and absorb culture and interactions then question established principals. Then there are self educated men like Canibus that absorb knowledge, seek it out, hypothesize, and delve into subject matter that they know will make them pariah, but do so anyway. I would say they all constitute modern day philosophers. So there are many paths I suppose. But people that gather to discuss bigfoot are closer to being a philosopher than a guy that just studies it and teaches it. He would have to put the book down and engage in it.