The truth exposing professors

While reading "Dancing with Professors The Trouble with Academic Prose" a lot of real life connections were made. It made more then a convincing case that perhaps we should not install all our trust in such an authorial figure. From the beginning of school we are taught that our teachers know best and we should give them all the respect they command. Through my 12, now going on 13, years of school i have a huge problem with that. Although most of my teachers have fit the script and have actually commanded respect there are some that did not deserve the slightest bit and received the opposite. This reading also suggests that maybe professors do not know exactly what is right and to obtain your own thought process not pertaining to that of your professor. I would strongly emphasize this to any student because it is most important to obtain your own thought process to prevent others from peering in to your own brain. It also maintains a sense of individuality, which matters a great amount. Professors will also complicate their students sometimes. They write complex papers that would make them appear brilliant by using such complex words and phrases. The affect of this is setting the students exceptions that to write a standard paper they must place as many "20 point" words as possible. I even have to admit sometimes i feel as if putting more extravagant words will higher my grade level.. It is a trap that has overflowed the minds of too many students pertaining to the fallacies of writing.  According to the text professors will use this strategy all the time. Even when they might not know exactly what they are talking about the use of such huge words downplays that majorly. Again, I have experienced the effects of this firsthand. Sometimes when professors present something that I have a few questions with, I hesitate because I believe that the professors is in fact a professor for a reason; because he knows a lot more then me. Which is not entirely true, but that should not diminish the fact of critical thinking and questioning of those in a higher role then we are.