No, the teachers can't be blamed solely, of course not, but they have no means to do thing differently because they are not told to do things differently. A certain way of doing thing gets comfortable and prevents change from happening. The comfort zone - afraid of change, like you said now : "don't tend to be creative risk takers". Parents lately have far more better things to do than to educate their children, do not talk to them about anything and just scroll up and down Facebook, ignoring the children to bring themselves up. This is why I say, it needs to change at home.