The late, great, Sir Ken Robinson used to tell this story of a young girl in a government school.

The teacher had tasked the kids with drawing a picture.

When the teacher asked this young girl, "What are you drawing?" the girl answered, "I'm drawing a picture of God."

When the teacher said, "Nobody knows what God looks like." the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

The tragedy of this is that Sir Ken Robinson was telling this story in the context of a lecture about how government schools kill creativity.

Ten years later, I don't think that he could have been more right.

Nobody is a blank slate at birth; but, we tend to be heterodox before we even know what the word means before our government schools train us into orthodoxy.

As the orthodoxy changes, so do our government schools.

If a child is unorthodox, that student is likely to get poor grades until he or she gets reprogrammed for the orthodoxy.

Few children have the mental fortitude to lie their way through school to get good marks, while maintaining their creativity.

The "conform or die" idea, even in the most liberal countries in the world, starts in preschool.