questions that make me question my career path

so, i'm taking a c.s. lewis class for the summer just to get a little caught up on my credits (i started my program a semester late and am trying to graduate on time... AHHH!!!). unfortunately, because the grad program doesn't offer any courses in the summer, i am actually in the class with a couple of girls from my program and a LOT of undergraduates.

let me make something clear, i have no problem with undergraduates. you may find this hard to believe, but i was once an undergraduate myself. however, as the fall semester approaches and i begin to contemplate my upcoming role as an English 101 instructor, i have been particularly shocked by some of the conversations in my class. examples:

teach: well, the problem with dualism is that good and evil will never be equal forces. good is, by nature, better than evil and will always triumph. that's why it's good.
kid in first row: so what you're saying is that if evil triumphs then it BECOMES good?
teach: no. no, that's not what i'm saying. evil will never triumph. that's why it's evil.
kifr: maybe you just don't get what i'm saying. see, if evil triumphs, then it is better than good, so it becomes good.
teach: no, i understand you. you're just wrong.

teach: well, you see, the problem was that lewis just got kant wrong, and he learned the hard way...
kifr: wait, wait, wait, you keep talking about some kant. what's a kant?
teach: oh, sorry, kant is a german philosopher. he's pretty influential in the philosophy world.
kifr: got it. kant. how do you spell that? c-a-u-n-t?
teach: no, he's german, so it's k...
kifr: (interrupting) on K-a-u-n-t?
teach: again, he's german... k-a-n-t. anyway, so lewis was probably more closely related to descartes.
kifr: what's descartes?
teach: another philosopher. see lewis aligned with descartes in his...
kifr: how do you spell that? d-e-k-a-r-t?
teach: no. d-e-s-...
kifr: OH d-e-S-k-a-r-t
teach. no. d-e-s-c-a-r-t-e-s
kifr: oh, that's actually pronounced DES-CAR-TES.

teach: lewis was really mocked for writing a science fiction story. see, at that point in time, science fiction was really seen as a lesser genre within literature.
kifr: it's not different AT ALL now. every time i ask to write a science fiction story in one of my writing workshops, the teacher says no. i still think that in literature they only like the boring, stupid stuff.
teach: well, i don't think that they want you to read the "boring" stuff so much as build a foundation. i also don't think that science fiction is looked at as a lesser genre... i think your teachers. well, frankly, (exasperated), i think your teachers might not think that you know what the hell your doing. and that's frightening.

kifr (after class): listen, i'm not a philosopher, ok? i study literature, not philosophy. i've never read any of these books, i've only seen the movies, ok? i don't CARE about the difference between pagan and christian infleunces, ok? i just care about the books.

why do i share this with a vast audience? frankly, because i doubt my own ability to patiently respond like my teacher did. when the fall comes, pray for me.