Are schools killing creativity?

hard to say, things like art my view has changed with ever since i went to uni, whilst was at school was told copying was bad and that i shouldnt do it, then at uni was told by one of my lecturers (did concept art on some of the needs for speeds, stars wars games) that i should copy so i can pick up new techniques which i could then apply to my own pieces
 
I feel that throughout my art GCSE my creativity was constantly battered down and that the curriculum did not offer room for creativity whatsoever.
As I've got older, creativity throughout my subjects is more appreciated so it is indeed hard to say.
 
I believe some schools encourage creativity and help to improve it.
When I was younger, in elementary we didn't do a lot of actual learning. Instead, we spent most of the class time working on creative projects that really had nothing to do with learning at all.

When I got older, in high school, I realized that art wasn't as appreciated as it was when I was younger. But, I don't know if I would say the curriculum "killed" my creativity. A lot of people in my school were into art, but they all had the same idea that "art wasn't a career".
 
"Pupils; if Jack has twenty apples and John has ten, how fast is their car going in correlation to the nearby steam train heading from London to Glasgow?"

My point? The curriculum is full of pointless **** that nobody will ever need to learn; this is what college and universities are for, to learn specific subjects in depth. Anything like creativity or "life" knowledge is pretty much absent...oh, and all teachers now-a-days care about is you getting high grades, no matter how you achieve them.
 
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