Often these professors are not elders in churches and sometimes they have no pastoral experience whatsoever. Yet we bow before such men quite often as the experts who are to train the next generation of pastors.
To add to this, there are some seminary presidents, who are the head of a place of training for pastors, who are not pastors and some have never been pastors. How they can be in charge of a seminary whose main goal is (or should be) to provide training for pastors is baffling.
P.S. Great post Joe.