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I have probably learned more from my own reading and my parents' influence than I ever did at any school. I wouldn't say that schools kill off creativity- or should I say educators? Educators don't kill off creativity. At least not where I went to school. It was more the school experience as a whole, being thrust into a 500-strong group of terribly discriminating young gentlemen and ladies who were cruel and prejudicial, as British children generally are. One could quite easily grow to fear ever being seen as 'creative' or 'different' because one knows that means a bloody good beating from your peers.
The frightfully 1960s 'modern' edifice of the school building and knowing what ineffably moronic classmates lay inside was a huge turn-off, to the point of where I stopped bothering with work and spent all day waiting to go home. I learned- and forgot in turn- pages of pointless mathematics and biology, and barely scraped together enough knowledge to get my GCSEs. I did, however, seek some sort of solace in the Art Dept- that was the only place I actually did put in some effort (I got my only A there). I don't know where I am going with this, but thats basically my high school days.
In conclusion- it is not the schools that kill the creativity, it is the malice and/or apathy of the young people within.
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