My school teachers forbade the reading of the classical literature of Rome and Greece. Because, they said, it was wholly out of date, immoral, and of no worth in the modern Christian/socialist world. Since modern thinking had entirely superseded them. ( This was UK so socialist and Christian can go together. ) So of course being a child, and being told not to do something, I went out and did exactly the opposite, I read all of them I could get. I only half understood most of it then, and I do not now, agree with much of what I read. But they did tell me, that there were quite viable alternate views to the modern Christian dogma, and that the Christians did not have a monopoly on virtue and understanding.

( I also learned that my school teachers had not read everything they claimed to be experts on, and they told lies.)

No you are not alone. But you must remember that teachers are at the core of any culture, and that they are there, because they have proved to be the people who are most compliant with that cultures values, or lack of values. They are therefore also, any cultures greatest victims.

If anything, the disturbing teachers helped me become less like them.

Some people should never become "teachers/professors".

Not by a long shot.