How should teachers empower students.

We all have complained about a teacher sometime in our lives, but teachers are really necessary. One might think," teachers teach and so do textbooks so why don't we just read textbooks?" and another might reply, "it's to control the students." Quite the contrary actually, teachers are there to let students go free because in my opinion, no one can learn without wanting to learn. Teachers are here to empower students by teaching students how to learn! Because no one is in school forever (unless you are Michael Nicholson of course). In our future lives we are not going to have study guides and textbooks to look at, we are going to have our minds and whatever we can get our hands on so I think teachers should empower students by teaching them how to learn because as Clay P. Bedford said "You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."