How often may pedagogy become a barrier to creation?

I want to teach you to write. Well. How is that I write? Well, there are the things I learned from a teacher that I can tell you. Then there are the things I learned myself to tell you. Then all the stuff I internally learned from reading other peoples' writing? 

Now, what if you have a completely foreign style of writing from mine? Sure, many people like your style and appreciate it but it is not mine and I have trouble appreciating it. Is it not inevitable that I would unconsciously teach you out of your style and into mine? Even if in small doses?

What's stopping you from just writing? You know, learn as you go? That's how they used to do it. People used to just write stuff. Then people read their writings and liked them. Then the people that liked them would share it. They would call him a great writer because he had pleased many. 

How do we even tell who is really great? Who are the judges? 

So, how do we teach people to write? How should we teach people to write? Is it about giving them the pencil and paper and helping them find their love for it? More and more we create pedagogies. Lessons. Textbooks. Commonly accepted understandings of 'ways to educate.' These involve techniques and practices that people that are deemed strong in the field do very well at. So it is implicit that you should know or do these things to. 

But could it be that in those pedagogies lie straight jackets. The methods they teach before there is any interest or real understanding of why they are doing what they are doing are like an instruction manual for a TV you don't own. Hmm...It could be useful...

Ultimately, why do we do the things we do. On some level, in some way, it makes our life better. It makes us better. Otherwise we would probably pick another thing to do. That is what we are sharing as so called 'teachers.' Our love for this thing. Even if a small interest. There is a reason we want to share it...I hope. 

I'm lucky. I never wanted to be a teacher. I just fell in love with it. Nothing much like sharing your love of something with others. I love music and really want to share that love. When I get to play with the kids they see that and hopefully they can love it some too. If they can't...then, I'll go do something else. 

I don't want to share my cookies with you if you don't like cookies. That would be some silly form of selflessness you are trying to wear. Ha.