> 2 decades+ professional experience in the field counts for nothing in terms of meeting educational requirements Yeah, professors have experience with people

> 2 decades+ professional experience in the field counts for nothing in terms of meeting educational requirements Yeah, professors have experience with people like this. They're the students that stop lecture to ask a 5 minute long "question" that somehow hits the high points of their 20+ years of experience and doesn't really go anywhere, that roughly ends up at the same kind of "when will we ever use this in the real world" question that you'd expect from a 19 year old kid, when you're lecturing on rings and fields.