Autorytet nauczyciela w opinii uczniów szkoły ponadgimnazjalnej (na podstawie badań własnych)

When choosing a school, young people check whether a given entity implements educational projects, European programmes, whether it has access to the Internet, interactive boards, e-registers. They checks exam results or, particularly in the case of vocational schools, how school-leavers cope on the labour market. But in the first place, school is made of people, those who learn and those who pass knowledge. The aim of the article is an attempt to answer the question whether in the contem-porary Polish high school one can talk about authorities. How do teenagers understand this term and do they identify authority with the place and the people they meet every day? Can, according to young people, a teacher be an authority and what conditions he or she should meet to be one? The research tool used in the work is an anonymous survey conducted among stu-dents of one of high school in Opole.