Your premise is wrong. Teaching is really the act of caring for and nurturing student capabilities. Teachers create a set of conditions in which the learner can more effectively focus on their learning than is otherwise normally available.

I understand why you would posit such a negative view of teaching, it is extremely common to conflate instruction with teaching. In the case of instruction, which is a narrow sub-set of teaching practices, the instructor has a set of skills or information that the student lacks and is charged with ensuring that the student acquires what they lack. But even in that situation a good teacher will deal with that disparity by enabling the student to construct the necessary mental structures that form the basis of skillful interactions in their field. It is only unskilled instructors who take the delivery metaphor literally and assert their "authority" as if they are superior or have special power over their students.

Good teachers realize that we are all ignorant of something, and therefore have equal status before the Truth. When a student approaches a teacher it is not about being inferior, it is about the common human desire to connect with each other and the magnificence of the world. When students have been given the freedom and taken the responsibility to pursue their interests and passions for making their way in the world, then they approach teachers as equals and good teachers respond to them that way.

Here's a piece I wrote on "The Moral Path of Curriculum" which goes into some of the details of my view.

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Enjoy,

Don Berg

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--- In LearningCommunities@yahoogroups.com, jinan kodapully <jinankb@...> wrote:
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> The Teaching teacher teaches the child to teach. They also teach
> authoritarianism, mindless obedience, blind fear of power and authority
> etc.
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> A learner engaged in learning can not be authoritarian. But the
> teacher has no choice. Just the fact that they 'teach' makes them authority.
> And the child also learns that knowledge needs to be got from an authority-
> teacher, text, and now the internet etc.  Because the child never sees
> knowledge being created.