This paper aims to present how contemporary Polish learners view their teachers in a modern school environment. The author conducted empirical research on what 148 Polish students of secondary school (grades 1–3) and 168 students of English philology (94 students of B.A. studies, years 1–3 and 74 students of M.A. studies, years 1–2) expect from their teachers in terms of such factors as classroom management, individual knowledge, or even physical appearance, among others. The author collected data using a questionnaire as well as individual and collective interviews. As a result, the present study familiarises the reader with the profile of the teacher that the modern students wish they had in the classroom of the 21st-century education, and implies that the expectations of both secondary school learners and English philology students constitute a complex framework of a plethora of simultaneously-working features.