For example, Pathways to School Improvement and Reinventing Schools suggest major paradigm shifts. Perhaps foremost in the shifts, for which the WWW makes the feasibility real, is the shift from learning specific content to lifelong learning. Too often schools spend time teaching and stressing skills that become out-dated. At the same time the students do not necessarily get the skills to get more skills nor how to take charge of their own education. Also included in major paradigm shifts is the shift from teaching to learning.
All students do exactly what the teacher decides.
The problem with this model is how do the students ever learn to take charge of their own education. The other extreme is allowing students more control of their education. There are pros and cons for allowing students to have more control over their education. Some of the pros include the ability that students acquire to pursue areas that are more meaningful to them at a given time, which develops skills for lifelong learning. There are also some cons.