The bitter drug for Iran research and education system to shift from "Oil-based path" to "Knowledge-based path"

The purpose of this study is to identify and introduce the "starting point" of shifting the country's education and research system from the "oil-based" to the "knowledge-based" path. Given the ambiguities and complexities of "nature of starting point of correction process" for an individual or a society that has gone down in an undesirable historical path, using library studies, the views of experts in the fields of success, Islamic mysticism and development about the starting point of becoming an unsuccessful, perverse, and undeveloped, individual or community into a successful, transcendent and developed individual or community were examined. Experts in the fields of success, Islamic mysticism and development explain the starting point of the transformation process of an unsuccessful, perverse, or undeveloped, individual or community as "drinking the bitter drug", "repentance or vigilantism", and "changing ways of thinking", respectively that can be described as an identical phenomenon from different points of view: "confessing it self's responsibility for achieving the undesirable status quo". Many other scientists have mentioned the same concept. Therefore, in order to correct the intended oil-based path, Iran science and research system in the first step should "drink the bitter drug" that's mean it should admit the deterioration of the situation and accept its responsibility for achieving current situation; otherwise, any other action would be as continuing the inefficient historical path.