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some extent understandable, it is important to modify our perception of the word "change"
and to have courage and an open mind about the transformation that education is finally
facing.
Traditionally, the student has been a passive participant, a person attending a class for
a given amount of time, who receives a daily dose of information to memorize. The
teacher has been responsible for providing information in a uniform manner to each student.
However, The perceived role of the teacher as the agent who knows everything and cannot
be questioned has forged a one-way relationship that is not conducive to creative
thinking and the exchange of ideas in this day and age. This system of education in mass
production was a direct response to the industrial revolution, and was designed to create
workers who would work in production line systems, and as such prepared people properly
for this type of occupation.
Nonetheless, while the world has continued to evolve and progress, education has
remained tacitly stagnant in an era that ended several decades ago. The problem is not that
we are using an educational system designed for the 20th century, the problem we have in the
21 st century is that we are using an educational system designed for an era that, according to
most historians, ended in the mid-1800. Education in the new millennium desperately
needs a dramatic change from past models, and calls for the creation of an environment
where the roles of both educator and student are renovated and transformed.