Hardly can we separate philosophy from teaching because both are preoccupied with values and value orientation. For teaching to be morally acceptable and not just imposition of ideas from those that are considered more matured to the less matured ones necessitated this paper to argue in support of the professionalisation of teaching in Nigeria. In this paper, one may be tempted to ask if students can learn from experience alone without teacher(s) going by the beliefs of some philosophers who posited that one can learn new things directly through observation without teacher(s). If this is to be taken, one can also ask can an immature learner alone restructure and reorganize his experience. John Dewey, a pragmatist averted that if teaching is restructuring and reorganizing of experience then there is need for a professional teacher who is trained to guild learners through planned activities so that learners may acquire the richest possible from their experiences. One will also a
Adeleye et al. (Fri,) studied this question.