How Schools Stifle Creativity

This video has been out for a while, but I recently Stumbled across it.

Sir Ken Robinson is a creativity expert(there is such a thing?) who has a special interest in education and the way schools educate children. Although a lot of the things he says are vague and not practical for all students, he does raise some interesting questions. Why have our kids lost the ability to be creative? I have seen it countless ways. Ask a small child to draw a flower, and he or she will use colors not imagined before. The child will give it a purple stem with yellow and blue polka dot petals. Maybe it will have a face in the center, maybe it will be able to move and talk like people. Ask that same child to draw a flower years later, and he or she will draw a red flower with a green stem. We have gotten our creativity conditioned out of us. Many of us, including me, are hesitant to try new things because we might look silly, or we might fail. As a person who is in a "hard science," I have the desire to increase creativity through open-ended investigation. At the same time, I am pressured from several areas to provide simply the rigor and procedure of the subject. I think math is very important, and I think it has one of the most important roles in human intelligence and achievement. However, is the way I teach it the best way for students to learn. Just because it is a rigorous subject does not mean it must be taught like this 100% of the time. There must be practice, persistence, and diligence when it comes to learning the procedures, but how can I go deeper than this to explore some more concepts? How can I use what is learned to have them create their own applications? This is something I will always struggle with. But the video has taught me to view some students differently. I have many kids who have ADHD. My solution has just been to tell them to sit down more, and give them some more time to settle down. I tried to use more bodily kinesthetic activities, and I got varied results. I was hoping to magically unlock a door where they were actively learning, and instead it turned into a mess. So sometimes even with structure, some kids actively try not to learn. I think the problem is that it is not as simple as I, or Dr. Robinson, or anyone would like to paint it. I will always have kids that have trouble paying attention for various reasons. I think my job is to simply help them see a world that has yet to be, and help them make something of it.