No, I get it! The bad example I had in mind was, luckily, an exception for my program, it was just unfortunately circumstance that he was also the department chair. I think one of the few real issues for me going to college as a older student was that I was painfully aware of how much class time was wasted on students who seemingly don’t want to be there. (I was a computer science major, after 20 years of working in IT. The students that drove me batty were the ones with no love for the subject, only taking the major because they’d been told there was a lot of money in it.)
There are absolutely bad professors, burned out, overworked, whatever, but I think they’re the exception, not the rule.
