creativity

Creativity seems to be lacking…and it seems to be a cultural thing. I know this is stereotyping and it isn’t all across the board but at the moment it is feeling quite pervasive. If one person has an idea, everyone around does the same…if there is one chips stall there will be 3 more right in a row…same in the markets with tomatos, potatos, you name it. And you find it in school too. They don’t seem to think for themselves…if I do one of the crafts as a model…just for ideas…the kids try to get the same color paper and make it look just the same. (I know that kids do this everywhere but I’m feeling like it is all the time and they don’t do anything for themselves) i know that they are usually taught (in the other schools) to just memorize and learn by rote but it is hard to understand. But then they probably usually don’t have all the same incentives to create…it is more to survive. the wood markets all sell the same stuff…if you see it one place you can probably easily get it somewhere else…unless of course you really like it and then it seems to be out of stock…