When a 'teaching' Uni, isn't.

Some universities extol the virtues of their being 'teaching' universities, and how that is far superior to the evil 'research university' where they tell you that your child will have somewhat limited contact with a real 'professor'. Ok, outside of the fact that most teaching universities don't actually have readers (associate professors), much less professors teaching your kids (so your kids won't have ANY contact with esteemed and established academics, not limited).  But lest you don't really see a problem with this, allow me to explain. An MSc student came to visit a lecturer at the degree farm a few weeks ago. They were concerned because they had learned regression analysis (let's call it calculus for the sake of ease) in their degree, but didn't want to go to their module leader because they were still a little insecure about their ability.  However, they really wanted to try and  use what they had learned for their MSc dissertation. So, they came to me, and I agreed to help. Well, they told their dissertation supervisor what they wanted to do, and this person 'strongly discouraged' the student from using regression analysis because 'they didn't understand it and wouldn't be able to mark their work appropriately' (read: you'll get a crap grade because I, your supervisor, don't know what you've done). HUH?!?!? THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY TEACH IN THE MSc DEGREE!  But the supervisor doesn't understand it?  Now, here is the ironic thing...this supervisor/lecturer's qualifications are that they passed the same degree that the student is getting, from the same university.  So they took the same module, but clearly didn't understand it. And, as a paid lecturer/supervisors, do they take the time to try and learn?  Do they expand their knowledge so that your kids can grow?  Er, no. They tell them to do ratio analysis. So basically, they're telling your kids to do fractions when they're trying to do calculus. Calculus...because your kids WANT to...and the people being paid to educate them are stopping them. By the way, the student in question was upset because, though it was more difficult, they wanted to attempt to apply what they'd actually learned and test themselves. Instead, those who are supposed to educate them actually tell them that in doing so, they'd be attempting something that they don't understand and will make no attempt to understand. I don't know about you, but is this worth your tuition? People teaching your kids who know less than your kids?  Not exactly value for money, is it.