ABSTRACT
The idea of the teacher-as-intellectual is hardly new, but it has recently become fashionable in some quarters, resulting in a large body of literature on that issue having been built up in the last decade. Teaching entails an intellectual concern with the transmission and advancement of knowledge, a moral concern for human betterment, and a more general concern to combat not just ignorance but also the commonplace. This chapter sets a context which can take up some of the issues raised in earlier chapters and which can also encompass and develop the notion of the teacher as a person bearing expertise in some knowledge area who is concerned both with transmitting and sharing that knowledge and promoting human betterment. Once it is recognized that there is no neutral education we no longer need to apologize for an open commitment to using education to criticize and change the status quo.
