Creativity simply means that you have the ability to think and create something new and different. I agree that schools kills creativity as students only focus on getting a good grade and in the process of getting a good grade, all they do is to study within our syllabus as Ministry Of Education(MOE) has set out a syllabus to be tested for our major exams like O level. Therefore, since students are confined by the thoughts of getting good grades, they only focus on their syllabus and do not take time to explore more interesting things outside of their syllabus.

By only focusing on their syllabus, students do not have the freedom to express their creativity as most of their studying is to memorise facts so that they will be able to do well for their examinations. For example, in humanities subjects, students have to answer Structured Essay Questions(SEQ) and in order to do well, they have to memorise facts from their textbook or notes and use those facts to answer the questions. Most students find it a chore to memorise so much facts but they have no choice. This kills creativity as the students are just writing down what they memorise from their textbook or notes and not express how they feel about a certain issue by using their creativity.

Besides that, even in school projects, when students use their creativity to express how they feel through their work, their work is rejected as it does not fulfill the criteria being set by their teachers. This limits their creativity as they are not given freedom to express how they feel as they are restricted to the criteria set by their teachers.

I believe that all students have creativity but as they step into school, their creativity gradually gets lesser and lesser. Give a young kid a crayon and he can draw you anything under the sun. This shows that young kids have very good creativity but as they grow older, they are being restricted to having creativity due to expectations in school. Quoting Ken Robinson, "What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original -- if you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity."

Therefore, I agree that schools kills creativity.