Paradigm shift?: From Learner to Knowledge creator

Here's a quick thought. An insight, which has some significant repercussions.

School has always created a culture of learners, which means a group of students absorbing knowledge. So the teacher/student relationship has been the mainstay of this paradigm.

However as I think about it, by getting the students to participate more fully in the creation of the class, they are also playing the role of teacher/learner themselves. More significantly, they become knowledge creators. I think, as I observed the students doing the presentations of the readings, and eventually asking them to create the readings to put on black board, this is exactly what they are doing--creating knowledge.

Certainly they learn, but that's the starting point only. They are also actively creating new insights. This changes many practices, and many assumptions we have had about education doesn't it? So what do the students have to do to become effective knowledge creators???