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Since our last class I have been questioning the role of the teacher in the classroom. Is there really no leader within the classroom?  

In trying to prove that there is really no authority or leader per se, Prof. Grobestein gave us a task/command and asked how we would respond. Most of us agreed that we would not complete the task simply because we did not want to, but is this level of power that we were exercising something that we take for granted simply as college students? Our status and power (or awareness of the two) as students are not visibly constant throughout our years within the education system. In grade school we are taught to listen to the teacher and do as the teacher says, being punished for any form of disobedience. However, in highschool and college we are given more freedom and are therefore held more accountable for the role we take as students in the classroom. Hence our own willingness and desire to do as the teacher says plays a larger role in the classroom...

I think that the students are inevitably the ones in control because they grant the teacher positions of power and ultimately decide their own roles as students, but does that necessarily imply that the teacher is not a leader and that there is in fact no leader? 

Does a leader have to control?...How do we define leadership?