Kiddushin 33: Standing to Honour a Torah Scholar/ a Torah Scroll

In keeping with their conversation about honouring parents, especially fathers, the rabbis focus on honouring each other in today's daf.  Some of the main points as I understand them:

• anyone with a hoary head - an elder - should be honoured
• honour is demonstrated through standing in one's presence
• craftspeople should not stand before Torah scholars to honour them if it interrupts their work and costs their clients money
• one should not stand to honour a Torah scholar, even one's teacher, in the bathhouse
• one should not contemplate Torah in a bathhouse, a lavatory, or anywhere where there is urine or feces
• one cannot close one's eyes to avoid seeing and thus honouring a Torah scholar
• a student should stand from the moment his/her teacher is seen until that teacher is either out of sight or at least four cubits (approximately two metres) away
• covering one's head was sometimes used to demonstrate respect
• elders are honoured because of their assumed wisdom after so many years of experiences
• teachers should be honoured through standing before them once in the morning and once in the evening
• more standing might suggest that a Torah scholar is like G-d
• A father who learns from his son does not stand before him; the son stands before his father
• Those who do extensive good deeds, like Rabbi Yechezkel, should be honoured through standing
• if a teacher is riding on an animal, that is similar to a teacher walking, and one should stand to honour a teacher who is riding
• a person who is impure and sitting under a tree imparts ritual impurity to anyone else who stops under that tree
• a person who is ritually pure and sitting under a tree incurs ritual impurity only if one who is ritually impure stops beneath that tree
• thus one who is in motion must be honoured; s/he is in a place of strength
• Torah scrolls should be honoured through standing as well
• One should stand before a Torah scroll in motion; a Torah scroll that is being carried (like a Torah scholar on a camel)
• One should stand before a teacher studying Torah
• One should stand before a Torah scholar, the president of the court, or the Nasi if they are passing by

The rabbis go to great lengths to describe some of the ways that they have been disrespected by other rabbis who did not stand before them.  This discussion makes me wonder whether this text reflects both encouragement to respect for the rabbis and discouragement from rabbis taking their own honour too seriously.