Important questions are not at home in a place of learning. University education must be popular, or Universities go out of business.
Philosophy departments take a token look at life: but there is never an intention to find answers. Philosophy is a scholastic exercise providing scholars with jobs - the ultimate in twaddling. The result is a huge amount of meaningless knowledge, the application of which does more harm than good. And why? Because our knowledge and our lives are without a basis in Truth.
The academic staff are necessarily the worst culprits - a result of the length of time they have spent being "educated". Three or four years at a University is enough to destroy any tendency towards reason and free thought a person may have. Our friendly professor has spent many years in this mind-deadening environment, and it shows on his face. In his fatherliness he passes his feeble thoughts on to his thousands of students, perpetuating ignorance in grand fashion.