It was taught plenty well at my college, Davidson College http://www.davidson.edu/academics/humanities, but I can imagine they did quite a bit better job than most of doing so.
Still reading Adam Smith it is very obvious what he believed. Even if your economics professor were to ignore much of what Smith said (hopefully they wouldn't fail to but in that event...) it would be a pretty poor student that didn't pick up on it.
His 2nd most well know book after Wealth of Nations is called The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
I'm not going to find it now, but I was blown away when he says that interest rates on loans should be capped to prevent lenders destroying wealth by making loans to those most likely to default (which would justify high rates of interest).
Still reading Adam Smith it is very obvious what he believed. Even if your economics professor were to ignore much of what Smith said (hopefully they wouldn't fail to but in that event...) it would be a pretty poor student that didn't pick up on it.
His 2nd most well know book after Wealth of Nations is called The Theory of Moral Sentiments.