I attended the Art Institute of Seattle in the early to mid 90's. Fortunately, the entire chain of them is no longer around to the best of my knowledge.
There are many things out there that artists will hear about from many different highbrow institutions (see above) and self-proclaimed art experts about how to make art 'properly' - and most of the standard color wheel, composition, rule of thirds terminology that you hear about is for design, not art. In its truest form, art is an expression. In my opinion, that is exactly why I believe children to be the best artists. They have absolutely zero fear of criticism about what they create.
I want to make it clear that I do believe that there are aspects of art that can be taught - for example, there are plenty of fantastic tips and insights to learn from Betty Edwards' "Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain". As for me personally, I have been fortunate enough in life to cross paths with some fantastic teachers that understood me enough to support and offer deeper understanding of the concepts I was already practicing on my own. All of them were in my life during my formative years. Thankfully, their wisdom and influence survived the terrible experiences of 'art' school later on.
One of my instructors at the Art Institute, and I will never forget this, actually said to the class "Why should I teach you anything? You'll just leave here as my competition." It was a class on teaching perspective drawing, which in terms of ridiculousness is about a 9 on a scale of 10. After all, if you go to their terrible school, you probably have a fair idea about the concept of perspective. I learned more skipping that moronic class and hanging out on the waterfront of Elliott Bay when I was 19. Fuck that place, and history proved that place did in fact, fuck itself 24 years later.
The Art Institute wasn't even very good at instructing artists how to market themselves (or much of anything else, for that matter), which would have actually been infinitely helpful. Artists are inherently introverted empaths that care deeply about others but do their best to avoid them, so we need help putting ourselves out there. The Art Institute wasn't effective in either the art or graphic design arena. There is a very technical, proven way to create an effective graphic design, and many ways they can differ even within that universe. Designing magazine ads is vastly different from signs. Signs are not the same as websites. Logos need to be easily recognizable - not intricate works of art. Different applications require different methods. Graphic design utilizes some of the same principles as art and has artistic qualities, but it is not art in the traditional sense. Its a fuzzy line that most don't think about.
My main point is whether you have talent or not, learned or natural, if you are happy expressing yourself, that is all that matters. My entire collective lesson I have learned in life is that the best art instructor is the support of the people that love you.
I always say that as a parent, if your child wants nothing more than for you to sit at the table or on the floor with a half used box of crayons and slightly worn and bent blank sheets of paper grasped clumsily in small hands, start drawing. That next ten minutes or two hours will mean more than can ever be expressed in words.