Killing Creativity

[TheEclipse]

How does school encourage or discourage creativity?

[Gibs960]

At my school it's do it the way Headboy and Headgirl do it or you're not deemed good at that subject. When I tried to be creative with my writing I almost got the crap beaten out of me by a load of "friends", because they thought I'd copied it. I think if teachers encouraged creativity more, children such as myself would enjoy school more.

[Inseriousity.]

encourage it with rewards system etc.
discourage it with the "because it just is" answer to creative questions.

[immense]

Discourages it because they have such strict regimes and so much to get through. School kids aren't really given a chance to show their creative selves and do as they please because of these.

[TheEclipse]

:( I'm sorry to hear it. How would you like kids to be able to show off their creative selves?