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The article suggests rethinking the role and place of the teacher in modern education. In our case the teacher is understood in a broad sense, assuming the form of a “teacher system”, representing not a simple collection of features and characteristics but a complete dynamic formation. The presence of the highly professional, competent and mobile teacher turns him/her into a constant of education of the XXI century, and upbringing is one of his/her tasks of paramount priority. Among the teacher’s tasks is not only the transfer of the past knowledge, but the formation of the young generation’s ability of innovative thinking, of being mobile, spiritually rich and well-mannered. The teacher becomes an important technological and pedagogical link between science and education, theory and practice, past, present and future. Its activity is multifunctional, and he/she acts as a pedagogue and researcher, creator and developer, manager and designer of educational process, a moderator between the students and the information sources. In modern education he/she becomes a researcher who constantly has to make scientific discoveries and implement them. Society which manages to create such a perfect «TEACHER» system will become the leader of the XXI century and will define the mankind’s future.