Somewhere someone out there posted that a whole generation of learners has been educated to believe that knowledge is elusive and in the control of a few individuals, and that these individuals teach us that information and we are privileged to get it.

What happens when you tell people that it is just not true? What happens when you tell them that they can go get every piece of information they need without permission from a teacher or "owner" of knowledge?

I always try to remember this: teachers represent, for the most part, the group of people that excelled in the model that we are trying to change (we'll stick with "old school". So that is a double-edged sword when we are telling teachers to change the very system that has validated most of their adult lives. Asking someone to learn something in which they will not be good at upon first try, even for a short time is not an easy thing to have them acquiesce to; I don't care how many approaches we take.