A "learner-centered" approach sounds nice on paper, but it assumes a type of student which is really in short supply. I have taught elementary school. I have taught at the college level. Unfortunately, many students lack the internal structure to run the show. It is illogical really to think that a teacher is merely a "companion" in the classroom.
I do not wish to pay taxes to any school district in which teachers do not control what takes place. The control that I think of is of course the intelligent and sensible kind, not the Hitlerian or Stalinist.
Father Flanagan presumably said that there is no such thing as a bad boy. However, prisons are sadly not about to go out of style either.