There certainly are many younger professors who want to lower status barriers and relate to the students more as friends. But when such relations do develop, it often happens that students lose any sense of respect at all.
的確也有不少年輕老師喜歡放下身段和學生建立亦師亦友的關係，不過關係發展到後來，往往變成「沒大沒小」。