The worst thing that I can do as a teacher is stifle their creative urges by filling their heads with rules. The author most likely included this sentence to

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It seems likely that the question was being put into the title area of this "question" but the limitation on # of characters caused part of it to be lost.

 

It's true that creativity ought not to be stifled, but it's also true that society often mislabels rules (required for a good working atmosphere) as oppressive.  Rules are not intrinsically bad. Teaching rules as absolutes, without stating reasons for them, is what is bad.

 

In Mathematics, just teaching rules is not good--teaching the insight (derivation and proof) of new theorems and formulas is the right way to go.