It claimed that the move represented a throw-back to the 50s and would “kill children’s creativity”.
I seem to recall (from actually studying history as it happens) that there was no shortage of creativity in the past. If anything I think there was more creativity in the era before the information age.
Indeed, and the information age brought along with it a monstrous load of bad information....which is shamelessly exploited toward manipulating the uninformed and the lazy, as we Yanks found to our dismay in our last Presidential election, among other examples. In depending entirely upon blind Google searches and Wikipedia posts, without a significant core foundation of time-tested and demonstrably-proven knowledge, we're all going to be headed down a very bad road indeed.
I'm also reminded of The Book People
Amazon.com- Fahrenheit 451- A Novel (9781451673319)- Ray Bradbury- Books
who each took as their solemn mission the lifelong focus of memorizing a book, word for word, so that the knowledge of the past could be one day reclaimed in a future era of enlightenment.
So often I encounter people, primarily Leftists, who are breathtakingly ignorant of basic facts and concepts yet so very sure and unshakably confident of their own intellectual superiority.
We seem to be moving toward needing a clan of "Book People" more and more every day.