When I went to college, professors were older people with vast amounts of experience and knowledge with what it was they were teaching. Not some young snot nose who has a “diploma” where the ink hasn’t even dried on it yet.
A few weeks ago, after learning my once very conservative alma mater now has wymen’s and perv studies, I checked out the profs. They looked just like him, only younger. Some still had braces on their teeth and were the image of sickly wild haired libs and foreign invaders. What the heck.
Like you, profs back in the day had some wisdom behind them. We did have one hold over old hippy and one gray haired who’d once posed for Playboy but they were as conservative as anyone.