Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson believes that schools kill creativity. He explains in this ted talk that schools focus more on the academic subjects such as math, science, english, etc and less on the arts such as painting and dance. The most impacting story that he told during his talk was the one of the lady who choreographed Cats. She was considered a bad child and had bad grades in school because she couldn't stay still. The school told her mother that she simply needed to calm down, instead she simply needed to dance and emit her en ergy in the arts. Schools today don't focus on the arts because they feel like they will not be beneficial in the future.