Not surprised. As a lecturer of some 30 years I have and continue to see the stifling of creativity of students in educating driven by an obsession of neo liberalism. Kids are not actually taught anything nowadays they are merely trained to pass exams.   Don't question or think about anything just learn this and regurgitate it. There is an obsession with math as if being an expert in this area will make you the ideal worker in the future. So this news comes as no surprise to me and future generations are taught to be passive automatons to function purely for the benefit of a neo liberal elite. Where are the future designers, artists, musicians coming from? Certainly not from generations now taught dumbed down syllabuses and X Factor style programming.