This evening I have been told two things, to wit:
1. Our students are a disaster area and we should cave to this situation. I disagree. They are a disaster area because they have not been required not to be, or more importantly, because they have not been shown, rather than just told how not to be a disaster area. My position on this issue is the minority position. It is a minority of one. I think I may be the Last Humanist.
2. The view that the university should run and be run “like a business” is a right-wing model designed to produce obedient people and not critical thinkers. It is antithetical to the concept of the university as a place of intellectual community or, of course, as a self-governing community of scholars. I agree with these points.
I have also been in the process of realizing that:
3. It takes a long time to learn things. For instance, one of the best courses I took in college was taken purely to fulfill a requirement. I found the class excellent, but it was years before I understood why we had been required to take it. At the time, I merely thought, “Well, I am glad that this required course is at least good.” But understanding that the material was important was in fact the key point of the course.
4. One would think conversation was about discovery but for very many people it is about asserting authority over one’s interlocutor.
5. One would think complaining was a form of brainstorming with a view to analyzing and then solving a problem, but for very many people it is a form of stalling so that the problem can be cemented into place as a permanent feature of reality.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
It takes a very long time to learn things, because often we need to unlearn erroneous ways of thinking to make space for whatever is new.
Your point #5 is astute and original.
point 4, yes indeed!