We are also told to practice and do whatever the Pharasees tell us due to them sitting in the seat of Moses, do we take this literally too?

Instead shouldn't we look at the context of Christ bemoaning hypocrisy, and that no one should exalt themselves, that we only be called what we are by how we live.  

Btw this is a prime example of different interpretations, to me the message is not so clear while to you it is. Had we not had the unity of the Church's interpretation we could already have a reason to fund our own denominations and accuse each other for being heretical. What about the third guy who is about to castrate himself?

Scripture has primacy, but it cannot have meaning by itself.  Christ gave us a church not a book. At the end of the day your interpretation of the passage is flatly rejected by both the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox traditions. Christ wants true teachers, true spiritual fathers and true ect, not hypocrites. (2/2)