We all have the opportunity of an education and it is up to us how we use it.
Not everyone can be a brain surgeon. Just because a person is in a profession doesn’t mean he is smarter than the guy who became a plumber. If he was, then he’d be fixing his own toilet.
By reading your previous posts I would say we are around the same age but I experienced things a little differently. Yes, we had leather clad mini skirted young teachers and males who wore their long and wore flaired ants and floral printed shirts but they were by no means hippies when it came to teaching a class.