I was fortunate (?) enough to have a Ph.D. advisor who told me flat-out: "Don't express an interest in teaching. It's career suicide. Undergraduates are stupi

I was fortunate (?) enough to have a Ph.D. advisor who told me flat-out: "Don't express an interest in teaching. It's career suicide. Undergraduates are stupid and you'll waste your time." It still bums me out, first of all that this is how a tenured professor thinks about undergraduates, and second that this is probably a clear-eyed and honest appraisal of the system as it stands. What exactly are we doing at big land-grant universities, if not trying to educate the young citizens of our state?