Response to Ken Robinson: School Kills Creativity

Ken Robinson's video "How School Kills Creativity" was a great video and I agree with a lot of what he had to say.  Thinking back to my own experience in high school, most of my academic assignments were very structured and my teachers left little to no room for creativity.  How do teachers expect their students to mature and grow if they cannot be creative?  The only way I was able to express myself in high school was through music class where I was able to be creative through playing the clarinet.  But, just because I am saying this does not mean that every music teacher leaves room for creativity.  There are numerous music/band teachers out there that structure their music classes like any other academic subject; they can tell the students to play loud, but the students don't understand why they are playing loud. 

As a future music educator, I want my students to love music and to love learning to make music.  Music is itself a form of creativity.  Even though my students will be reading musical notes off of a page, I want to teach them to make music out of these notes.  I feel so fortunate to be a music educator because music is a subject that can help develop independence and creativity in everyone.