"Mr. Hart, please fill this room with your intelligence", booms the ancient Harvard professor to one of his students on the first day of class. (Paper Chasers video clip) The student has been put on the spot in the middle of a classroom full of students. He appears intimidated, as well as humiliated. He had been expected to have found an assignment sheet posted elsewhere in the school, complete some readings, and memorize some information all before the first day of class. This is not how education should be. Students do not look forward to being humiliated in front of their peers. However, in another scenario we hear students monotonously repeating word after word of Latin grammar (Dead Poet's Society video clip). Students are lined up spewing forth information like an old dot-matrix printer in the back room of an editing office. Is that really what we are supposed to be molded into? In yet another scenario, we see a new teacher at an all women's school, presenting slide after slide of art in an art history class (Mona Lisa's Smile video clip). She attempts to tell the class of the history behind each photo only to be interrupted by student after student spouting off what she is about to say. All the students have memorized the textbook! When the teacher returns the following class and puts more art in front of them (that which is not found within the text book), the students are dumbfounded. They can't think, on their own, of anything to say! "Eww, that's not art!". A correlation amongst the students in all of these scenarios is that they have not been taught to critically think. I propose a system of education in which teachers are not just depositing information in students, in which students are not just passive observers in an active world and in which knowledge i ...