Why do we need to change the educational paradigms?

Nowadays school is considered to be a living organization where students, teachers and community members come together to educate young ones to become active members of the society. With all that we say formal education is student centered, sometimes the reality shows quite the opposite. In order to identify the citizens' opinion regarding school reality we investigated over 223 citizens with different learning needs, of which 104 were young adults. We organized 22 focus groups and the obtained data were analyzed in ESPOIR soft and in Excel program. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd.