Guru-Sishya parampara

Well...forgive the old 'traditional' title but the title best describes my state of feeling. You have to read my post and not my title so anyways, here goes:
I was wondering about this whole aspect of teacher-student relationship. How it used to be and how it has changed over the years and stuff... So, I was analyzing and I reached this conclusion that, unfortunately students of today have minuscule respect for their teachers or rather this has been the case ever since everything was 'Americanized'.God! How I hate that term, but that's how it is!! Nowadays students in colleges especially have no idea where to draw the line! if there is something that burns me up, that is sources of knowledge being abused! Sources of knowledge also happen to include teachers....a fact, sadly, many of my peers ignore.
In the good old days, teachers were equal to God; a man or a woman who could do no wrong, and their duty solely consisted of imparting education to the shishya and at the end of their education(students), they were paid a dakshina; a fee as a sign of gratitude which could be either cash or kind or in some cases, thumbs! I am sure you all are familiar with the story of Eklavya and Dronacharya, wherein the former cut out his thumb and gifted it to Drona....
Nowadays, with the coming of globalisation and a second wave of information technology renaissance, teachers have lost their earlier position. Teachers are a mere formality now, in today's educational system, just clinging to a by-gone era. Teachers in schools and colleges are given subjects, which have no relevance to their degrees.
Coming back to teacher-student relationship, contrary to before, students think teachers are like some quality paid for goods; much like the way we assume, because we pay income tax, the roads should be constructed properly. Which is not a wrong thing to expect, but therein lies the difference. Just because you paid your college and school fees, doesn't mean you can take the authority for granted. There is a decorum to be maintained. What a teacher does in his personal life is his business; students DO NOT have the right to question his integrity.
In schools for instance, there are these teachers feedback form, with which students play dirty politics. When they vote a teacher as the "favorite teacher", it doesnt mean, he is liked by them, it just means he can be manipulated around....wow, such is the irony of life!
In these cases, sometimes I thank God that there are rural people to equalise this sin....the students in the rural areas are far far better human beings than their urban counterparts. Well, I believe in the cycle of karma. I believe that, the mistakes these students have made by ridiculing their gurus, will one day come back to them!