Our paper presents briefly the Laboratory of Study and Research of the History of Education and Teachers Profession at the University of Crete: aims, scopes, collections, archives, museum material and library. Emphasis is given to the contribution of LSRHETP to the development of a new concept of school, a school called a “school of pedagogy” and non a “digital school”, school oriented solely on technology. The main purpose of Laboratory is to give opportunities to teachers and future teachers to ‘use’ the past in order to rebuilt our return “to books” (what ever that means: critical thinking, development of a wide range of skills, practicing the eye, the hand, and the body, bringing back to school the human dimension with the best terms which start eliminates dangerously, etc.). Especially, the key-question is whether today a museum of education, and in our case a laboratory, through its continuous and interactive museum exhibition material, could help to educate a modern and effective school teacher, building on past through the rich educational residues but without fetishists them. Other keyquestions we try to put forward are: did we use efficiently to benefit students the available audiovisual media in the past, how schoolbooks and all kinds of teaching supports contributed to pupils’ education? And if they finally brought or not the expected results? How we can bring, relying on the knowledge and experience of educational heritage, a new way of knowledge acquisition that aims at developing the human capital of pupils, without children end up the same digits in a virtual environment, etc? So, active rather than passive knowledge of the educational past will help teachers and administrators to avoid repeating errors on the teaching content and teaching methodology.