In fact, I'm not sure that most significant and long-lasting learning doesn't take place outside the classroom far beyond the limited academic concerns of most professors. They are not amateurish coddlers or baby sitters or entertainers. The crunch of the issue is to recognize that the professor must share the honored role of a teacher with others on campus who labor outside the academic domain of the professor. Fellow students are teachers. An RA is a teacher.
Counselors are teachers.
Placement officers are teachers. You can find teachers in the staff of Student Development or Student Life or Student Affairs. The truth is that the one person who touches a student and alters his or her life or causes them to remain on campus, is usually not a professor. But, community is the shape of our being and of the academic society to which we belong. We cannot lose an awareness of the existence of such pressures in the life of the student.