Thing is, I have always felt that the military theme in WoW is the reason why the Alliance and Horde are depicted as being so chauvinistic. It's kind of like how many if not most female characters in TV are extremely emotional, most military personnel in video games in my experience are fanatical warmongers and have that attitude of "my country, right or wrong".

However, the class itself is murky in lore - so until we travel back in time to that era we simply won't know what the general temperament of the ancient Scholars was. It's confirmed that during times of peace they took on the role of doctors, so it's certainly conceivable that many of them actually had a lot in common with Jedi Consular from SWTOR.