I would like to recommend a TED talk by Ken Robinson: "Do schools kill creativity?"

This presentation points out to a crucial issue which is mostly overlooked in society: Does our education system encourage creativity? A main conclusion of this talk is that we have to rethink our view of intelligence, which is an essentially diverse quality. This leads to a reconception of the richness of human capacity.

To motivate you to watch Robinson's talk I extracted some quotes from the talk:

"Creativity is as important in education as literacy...
If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will not come with anything original. But by the time kids get to be adults most kids have lost that capacity [of not being afraid of making mistakes]... we estigmatize mistakes.

We get educated out of creativity.

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