Why I don't trust some of my Teachers

Teachers are one of the most respected people in my opinion. They teach us about the things we don't know, the things we need to know, and the things that we want to know. They are technically the most trustworthy people. But, I am very unsatisfied with how some of the teachers of my campus behave and work. My biggest gripe with my teachers is that they aren't passionate about their work. Some teachers just do not care, and some act like ChatGPT who give answers to every possible question at an instant even if they aren't related to the field and even worse is that they are highly confident about it.

Complaining about teachers feels very wrong, it makes me feel like a "bad" student. I wish I could trust each word Even if not a 100 but 95% from their mouth when teaching, but that isn't possible. At least I think that isn't possible. I should not have to cross-check if my teacher said something wrong, and I noted it down, It should be enough to know the basics about the topic with confidence when they teach it. This isn't much of a big deal when they are teaching their own subjects, which they have been teaching since ages, but the fact that I know what is correct, and I am being taught what isn't If only it was that one time. makes me super worried about the validity of everything else I have learned from them. This made me sound more arrogant than it should be, I don't mean to be arrogant.

The other thing is professionalism, some of my teachers aren't professional In terms of behaviour. at all. Some think they are superior to other teachers and by that power they can do almost anything. Sometimes students are ignored/crushed under the ego of some teacher. Which makes me see them in a very negative way, and I don't want to feel that way. Some of the blames for un-enthusiasm for teaching can be blamed on the system as well, because the end result is determined solely by tests that don't really relate to teacher's teaching methods and how they want to test their students.

Teachers and students are interconnected, one cannot exist without the other. So, not everything is to be blamed to the teachers. I feel the lack of respect from the students to their teachers. Arriving in time for the class is one of them. And with my observation, if more students respect a teacher, more students, arrive on time for their lectures. But when the system is such that teachers have very little effect on the results of the students they teach, the respect for them immediately shallows down.

If a teacher can take tests in their own way and evaluate students for what they have analysed and came to the conclusion of how they have to test the students and the results depended on how the students did in the entire semester and not just a 3 hour + 1 hour exam, both the teachers and students will develop a relation that is respectful as well as collaborative and enthusiastic. This way both the teacher and students could sustain each other, and even work together to solve new problems they come across.

On the other hand, the tests done at the end of the semesters just takes away the power of the teacher to know the understanding of their own students and further degrades the relation of the teacher and their students. Because, it encourages knowing what to write instead of understanding the subject. When, sitting through the lectures and solving problems for the assignments though in theory should help a student to solve real life problems if they come across it. Instead of that, I feel like I am learning to write things in the exams and forget about them after exam.

For all this, there also arrives a question that, if I have to learn about the things I have come to learn, from my own research at home, or orrrr if I have to just practice the past papers and optimize my writing according to what it wants, why come to college at all? Why not go there just for the exams? But, yeah there is a catch there too, I have to attend college just for the sake of attendance because lower attendance means no entry to the exams.

I just hate sitting through a lecture I have to fact-check afterwards, which doesn't give much info for how to solve the questions for exams because what the lecturer taught doesn't align on how we are tested afterwards, and feeling like I could have learnt a little more or practiced for exams a little more if only I knew what to learn next for the course (which I can find out myself as well).

The lectures are important enough to understand the subject, but not enough to pass the exams. And Prioritizing exams just cuts off from the learning, understanding and problem-solving aspect of college time.

Also a reason why there aren't much published research papers from my uni.

Note: I wrote a follow up to this.
"Teaching: a failed Profession for Pioneers and Innovators"