ABSTRACT
A centralized system in education may have the effect of seriously reducing teachers’ professionalism and responsibility, and imposing a curriculum which soon becomes obsolete and irrelevant to pupils and students. A centralized system may also give pupils the impression that history is something given, a pack of knowledge that can be passed on to pupils. This, of course, is a serious misconception; history changes all the time and is the result of a continuing interaction between the present and the past.
