You had me at respect...I didn't need to read much more. I work with a pack of educational dinosaurs who show so little respect to our students partly because that is the nature of the trade we are in, novice really have to take a lot of lumps. It is difficult to get some of the instructors to realize they are not on a work site, and that the students are not their employees. There are some serious authority issues at my institution, very needlessly heavy handed and not at all polite. My program director is widely disliked by the students, mostly because of how he comports himself. It is a seem because he really does just want to help, but he came to education late in life and has brought a lot of old fashion ideas with him that don't really sync well with our student population. C'est la vie.
