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an excerpt from applied imagination:

Pre-college schooling tends to be anticreative, as a rule, even in the teaching of art, according to Stanley Czurles, Director of Art Education at New York State College for Teachers. He has said: "A child is highly creative until he starts school. Then, under traditional procedures, almost all our teaching tends to cramp his imagination. For instance, when in the traditional manner all pupils are given pieces of paper, all of the same color; are told just how to fold and mark them, all in the same way; are shown just how and where to cut, all in the same pattern; the result is that every child comes out with exactly the same design. There is no stimulation of the imagination, no incentive for creativeness. How much better it would be to have the pupil select the color, cut and fold so as to explore various possibilities, according to his individual initiative. In this way we would fan the creative spark, whereas, through standardization, we tend to stifle it."