Would you ever have a breakdown if teachers can't spell?

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Alright, so I'm not sure if I'm just being exaggerative, but with colleges/universities being so expensive nowadays, you'd expect their teachers to at least be educated... right?

Now I'm not saying they're illiterate, but when one encounters weird capitalizations and the occasional blatant typo... especially if they're in presentation slides (which are presumably more easily proofread)... is it justifiable to feel despair? (And I'm not even going to mention that fact that most likely no student ever points them out, and as such typos could only increase in quantity, since I think teachers have the onus here.)

And I only personally despair because educational institutions are filled with such nonsense nowadays that learning anything is barely possible... I shudder every time I say I'm a 'student', since its definition could be more accurately applied to donkeys, these days...

I admit I would experience mild surprise but not have a metaphorical breakdown. I'm a university graduate but never noticed if any professors used incorrect grammar.

I visit (well only lurk nowadays) on another forum and there's a guy whom I know is a university professor but seems unable to use capitalisation and sometimes punctuation. Again I have this mild surprise but no breakdown.

Not a professor, but at a similar level of education is a girl I know who is a medicine student, planning to become a doctor, was Head Girl at Inverness Royal Academy etc. etc., and from e-mails and web postings etc. I've seen from her she also doesn't seem able to use capitalisation/punctuation or even capitalise her own name. Again, mildly shocking to me.

At the end of the day however, ability to use proper grammar counts for a quite limited amount in getting on in life, compared to 'social'.

Yeah, it usually bugged me when my teachers couldn't spell. I usually keep quiet about it though unles asked. I remember when I was in grade 12 English, we were reading a novel together and somebody asked why a person got hanged instead of hung, they basically pointed it out and said it was a spelling mistake. My teacher said she didn't know and it must have been a spelling mistake. I was dying to shoot up my hand and said that when a person gets "hanged" that's how you spell it instead of "hung."