Abstract
The author considers a contemporary image of the teachers and their model of education. She summarises it by formulating basic tasks such as: teaching the craft of thinking in the categories of the future, capturing the curiosity of the world, introducing an intellectual flexibility and as a consequence gaining new knowledge and adapting to the new reality in which the school operates. Only in that case the teacher will become a conscious and critical interpreter of both his own educational activities and the ones of the surrounding world, able to work in a subjective way, free of enslavement caused by the need of completing a given task, often appointed without his participation.