2.6.1 Killing Creativity
It is indeed true that creativity is stigmatized in schools. My schools taught me to do everything in a uniform manner with the rest of the students in the school. No deviation was encouraged whether for the good or the bad. We were taught handwriting to write in a similar fashion. If you deviated and wrote differently, that was considered an offence and it could earn you a reprimand from the teacher. No wonder that we all dressed in school uniform and dressing in any other fashion was considered a deviation from the norm and attracted retribution. There was no opportunity for me or any other student to display his/her creative abilities for as long as a student did something differently, that was wrong in the eyes of the masters, the teachers, and would easily attract retribution. In class if a teacher taught you a particular method for solving a problem and you used a different method to solve the problem, it was considered wrong even though your method worked very well. This made creativity to be stigmatized in the schools.
I also want to agree with the statement that if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. This is true because to come up with something original, one must be