This is a really tone-deaf argument that doesn't recognize the context that modern colleges exist in. Consider that most classes that freshmen and sophomores at

This is a really tone-deaf argument that doesn't recognize the context that modern colleges exist in. Consider that most classes that freshmen and sophomores attend are either taught solely by TAs, lecturers, or other non-professors, or there is a class of 500 and the only personal contact the student receives is with the same. In this context, when students spend the first half of their post-secondary education learning a method of interacting with people who are excluded from True Academia, understanding that yes, you can be quite a good instructor without these norms (which, by the way, instructors can't or don't enforce because they don't feel empowered to by their institutions), it is not difficult to see why students resist the call for these norms once they start to interact with "real professors". Any professor who is calling for student respect in this way without respecting that the institution of academia itself has been significantly denigrated is only addressing a symptom of a much deeper problem.