Do Schools Kill Creativity?

This is not a good question to ask. After all, a school is meant to make you better in all terms- learning, talent, health, computing, communication, designing etc. All these things collectively decide how creative a person can be. If schools don't help in these basic parameters of life, there is something seriously wrong. But hardly, any school bothers to go beyond what they are doing as if everything they do, is on the right track. A good teacher and a good school cannot be called a villain but can turn a villain if it goes out of sync with times. In my city Amritsar, the schools that ruled education scene 20 years back, are pretty average schools today and the schools that ruled education 40 years back, are below average schools now and the schools that ruled education 60 years back, are almost dead or dying slowly. What does that mean that the reality changes but what kind of schools would gain public attention in next 20 years. It won't be a CBSE school or an IB school. These labels don't matter much because they have already encashed the premium attached to them. The future belongs to those schools that make learning a fun, where problem-solving would be central to the learning process. Can there be a school where no heavy school bags are permitted? Can there be schools where no need of any additional tuition outside campus is required?Can a school promise today to pay back entire tuition fees if a child needs tuition outside its premises? Can a school claim to create writers, film-makers, speakers of tomorrow? There is needed a disruption in the current model of schools. Teaching only for medical or engineering would not be the main attraction now rather multi-disciplinary skills would be the real magnet of the future. How many schools are thinking on these lines is the real question? The time is to find good teachers particularly the teachers with high quality inspiration quotient. We need not just B.Ed graduates rather we need the ones who can motivate a student in the digital age. Are we listening?