Creativity in Education

We have been discussing a lot on the reasons why schools do not provide creativity in education. There are many reasons for this, but I like to focus on the following. These reasons consist of teachers being structured with a mandated curriculum to follow set by the government, teachers having to teach students subjects that they will then be tested for on standardized tests, and lastly, teachers believing that creative students are most likely to not follow the rules set in their classroom. From reading about all of these reasons, I am not positive what it is going to take in order to change the education to prefer more creativity involved. The government is involved to create this curriculum to establish goals that students must accomplish in order to achieve academic standing, to make sure there is a future for the students. This coincides with the fact that standardized tests are mandatory for students to take in order to test where they are academically and to note progress. We understand that in classrooms all teachers want is to have well-behaved students that do what is asked of them. And when teachers think that one student shows more "creativity" than the other, they believe that student is more likely to misbehave or stray from the guided rules. With all of this being said, the relationship among education and creativity is seen as impossible for our society at the moment. We would need to change the way education is portrayed and change it to be more structured with hands-on activities with some instruction or have a focus of non-traditional education, such as how to survive on your own.