If we look at the teacher as an assembly line worker, there is no need for a telephone. Along with this outdated industrial model is the similar problem of an outmoded, inflexible structure. It is difficult to change an organization that primarily uses an instructional design developed by Socrates and a technology comprised of using fossils to scratch on slate. Inherent to this whole process is the fact that technology will change the way we do business. Indeed, technology has been floundering in American schools partly because the old organization perceives it as a threat.
Organizations are like living organisms.
The old organization knows that technology affects the way it does business and will eventually change, maybe even kill, it. Thus organizations resist change as a method of survival. Unless an institution is organized in such a way that change is integral to its survival, it will continue to perpetuate what it has always done for the reasons it has always done them. If we reorganize our schools to respond to our clients' needs, then the organization will have to react appropriately to a changing environment in order to survive. The Problem of Time Schools must move away from the outmoded industrial model to a service-industry model.