Scholarship in the Pietist Tradition?

Pietism is sometimes stereotyped as an anti-intellectual movement that cared little for formal education and scholarship. Yet all the major pietist figures were well educated and theologically sophisticated -- francke, Spener, Zinzendorf to name a few. Of course they were striving for a balanced spirituality that offered an alternative to highly intellectualized scholastics, but they did not throw all reason out the window. Pietist centers, at least those with moderate leanings, often centered around universities -- Halle, of course, but also Jena and Wittenberg. In the English context, we find Oxford's Holy Club and at the Cambridge, the Cambridge Methodists. So how do we sometimes get this idea that scholarship is incompatible with the Pietist tradition?