I don't think things have changed much since then. The teacher is in total control, the students are passive and the class is nicely quiet. Print produced the industrial revolution and its factories and the modern school which was modeled on them. Most private schools, however, are traditional. It should be said that this traditional model goes much further back to the technology of writing itself.
Teachers are tellers of truth, who actively inculcate knowledge.
And knowledge is objective and stable. It consists of facts, laws and procedures that are true, independent of those who learn, and entirely authoritative. The teacher remains enshrined as high priest, the authoritative dispenser of knowledge. We've always known alternatives. He prophetically warned of the dangers of formal schooling becoming remote and dead.