Abstract
Modern society is a society without authority. According to Peters, it could be dramatically described as the rise of the fatherless society. The emergence of individualism and rationalism led to the weakening of social authority. The weakening of teacher’s authority in education is not unrelated to this. Peters explains the teacher’s authority as rational authority. According to him, while traditional society in the past was maintained by traditional authority and charismatic authority, in modern society, the authority of teachers should be defined as the authority of position and professional knowledge. However, his explanation does not clearly reveal the nature of the teacher’s authority. Defining the teacher’s authority from a rationalistic perspective only shows the external aspect of the teacher’s work, not the essence. The teacher’s authority must be supported by sources that enable the teacher to transmit knowledge. As an alternative to rational authority, teacher’s erotic authority can be said to be the fundamental power that makes education possible and the teacher’s internal authority that allows students to be introduced to the values of the subject content.
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