Do Schools Kill Creativity?

In the TED video that I posted on the art blog, Sir Ken Robinson said something about how no one really has a clue what the future will bring (not even five years from now), yet we spend lots of time educating towards it. He said that creativity in education is as important as literacy and should be treated with the same status. That's really made me think upon what exactly I want Enid to get out of her schooling and what things are most important. If I was to list some of those things, I doubt many would deal with academic achievement.

One of the classes that I'm taking, Learning Disabilities, has also made me think through a lot of things that happen in schools (particularly public schools, and especially Nash-Rocky Mount Schools). There have been numerous discussions about EOGs and EOCs and how passing a class doesn't mean you'll get credit for it. I've also realized that if everything we learned was technical or academic (such as the trend of teaching to tests) and did not also develop our bodies or minds and not simply our memory for rote material, how could we move forward improving the world, solving crises, developing community??  What will happen beyond those five years into the future?