Do schools kill creativity?

I've been listening to Sir Ken Robinson TED talk and I've found out many interesting things. The first one, is that my computer is a holly $·&)$#~( or my connection to internet). I spent hours trying to listen completly the TED archive, but it was a kind of joke that I could only get 5 seconds of continued talk. So, I started to think (a little more) and I discovered that I could download it as an mp3 archive and listen to it completly without any disturb. I felt myself very intelligent doing that. Kidding.

Anyway, the other thing is that I got a little bit worried about Mr Robinson talk, because this thought came to my head, something like "am I a not creative person?". Maybe, beacause I fit on the traditional education system pretty well. Sir Ken Robinson thinks that one of the factors that could help to grasp the future is our capacity of innovation, for making betters things and accomplish new knowledge. This Mr worked in the british goverment for many years in the education area, so he knows very well what he's talking about. Innovation comes from creativity, something that schools don't provide to their children. We're educated for industralization, to be good workers, so I'm afraid I've kept those steps and I've been a "good student". I was always afraid of making mistakes, so that's why I think I failed the first year of architecture desing workshop. Mistakes are the only way to reach something truly original, and being creative. I think I failed that workshop because of my way of thinking, from schools: for me everything had only one possible answer, a very "math way of thinking".

I believe Architecture has build a new way of thinking on me, a more open and dinamic way. Or maybe I have built a new me, and architecture has only been the medium. I think every desing process has something of that relationship "try-mistake". Many possible solutions. Many ways of expresing beauty, many ways of function, many ways of thinking, according to the people involved in the preoject. I've made many mistakes, but that's the only way of reaching the truth, my truth. I believe I've changed, for good.