Intellectual Pursuits

I've been a student at one of the most prestigious universities in the world for the last 4 years. Currently, I am writing this blog in one of my classes solely because I'm reminded of something that greatly bothers me about the education system, intellectuals. As we progress from infants to adults, we are educated by a number of different teachers: math, english, social studies, gym, etc. While they all specialize in different subjects, the major difference between them is the declining ability to teach. It's ironic that as we get older we meet individuals who are less and less qualified to teach. It's not because the difficulty of the subject matter but more because people have become more disenchanted with teaching especially at the collegiate level. Typical teachers are intellectuals who wish to pursue research however they are required to teach in order to accomplish said goal. Intelligence and knowledge is a gift that should be distributed to everyone but these upitty intellectuals don't seem to really want to pass on the knowledge. They're too focused on themselves and their pursuits. Where is the joy? Where is the excitement? The best kinds of classes are the ones in which the professor seems genuinely excited about their subject, but most of the time it just feels like they're repeating what we could have read in a textbook or sparknote. I have a terrible sample size of teachers since I am an engineer, but on that note, these snobs are the reason science and math are lacking in most education systems. For god's sake, I learned more from Bill Nye the Science Guy than these PhD's with multiple published papers. If anyone is actually learning something from these phoneys they need to go out into the world and learn something real and be excited for the real world not the library.