Education in Reverse

I've just read this post, Is Everyone Creative?, on the Lateral Action blog. It concerns the question of whether everyone is naturally creative and that creativity is merely knocked out of us at school, or whether creative people are special. It begins with this talk from Ken Robinson:

Actually, I basically love what he says. I've been saying the same thing for years myself, although not as well, as articulately, with as much illustrative example, or with anyone there to actually listen to me.

Here's what I wrote in an e-mail to a friend about the Lateral Action blog post, before I'd watched the whole Ken Robinson clip:

I haven't watched the clip yet, but probably should. It sounds interesting. I do think that school utterly destroys all creative thought and should be banned. I also have some sympathy with the view of Gordon Torr, however.

"Creativity is as important now in education as literacy." Ah, if only literacy were important in education these days!

I think that, if creative people are 'different' it is probably because the 'norm' in society as it stands is to be a brain-washed drone and automaton, which, in my view is not good. So, overall, perhaps I'm more with Robinson than Torr on this one. Maybe Torr's viewpoint has value in that those who have, so far, actually 'dared' (not that they've necessarily had any choice) to be different, should bloody well get credit for it, instead of people just saying, "Oh well, you're no different to anyone else! We're all creative!"