A teacher is someone acknowledged as a guide or helper in processes of learning. Teaching is manifest in all things living; from the most basic transitions of form and matter via an organizing aggregator which imply some sort of meaningmaking & meaningful relation inhabited by the current who is involved in the learning process and its umwelt.[citation needed] A teacher also learns from his or her students.[citation needed] A teacher is consequently an eventual progenitor (or possibly epigenitor) of situations involving the experience of teaching.
Systematized ways of teaching is a core phenomena in all culture, and is synonymous with cultivation in all cultures. All human cultures seem to develop basic concepts and teaching practices of virtue.[dubious – discuss] Whether virtue here is understood as in craftsmanship, in spiritual practices, or in regard of the virtues involved in becoming a responsible community member, or simply skillful in the art of living and respectful in the art of dying.[citation needed]
Those who become looked upon as helpful for the whole of a community in regard of an evolution inherent in all ways of teaching are looked upon as teachers for those cultures.
In modern schools and most contemporary occidental societies, where scientific pedagogy is practiced, the teacher is defined as a specialized profession on the same level as many other professions. The teacher is herein performing a professional role which is possible and required of the professional teacher to take off when not in his or her professional context; or if moving further to other jobs in the market of work opportunities.
