Great quote

"If you're afraid to make mistakes, you'll never be able to make something creative".  

     Ok, I may have got that a little wrong and I don't even know who said it, but it get's the point across.  We are breeding students to be robots by stressing the importance of standardized testing in schools to get the right answer.  We are teaching them to be afraid to make mistakes or at least that mistakes are bad.  Hence why I get the same, similar questions all the time. "Is this right"?  "Is this how you want it"? The idea of an individual thought or something beyond one answer is fading away from students today.  I often tell them "In math you are all supposed to get the same answer.  In here, I am trying to get you all to come up with a different answer".  Even when they know it, they still struggle with it.