Reflection on the formation of the modern education system in IranBased on relationships power - knowledge at the thought of Michel Foucault

Abstract This article reviews the history of education in the field of search and conditions of formation of modern educational processes is based on relationships power - knowledge at the thought of Michel Foucault. Therefore, in this study, in the first step, cultural and social development of modern education in Iran is based on documents and evidence has been criticized, and in the second step, removed teaching practices and traditional knowledge in the modern education system is described. The first step is the result of research has shown that the process of modernization, through factors such as uniform, monitoring and panoptic structure between traditional education and indigenous traditions and Islamic values and has caused a lot of educational process has been removed and then in step two the research results showed that the underlying structures of modern Iranian educational system, such as Religion, diversification of educational content and avoid the construction of separate of age groups and content, change in attitude towards evaluation and change the order of evaluation approaches to the individual and the skill, to change the school and the terms of debate architecture, issues that should be revived.