Under Pressure

Over time, pressure has increased. I can name at least five of my friends who are applying to semi-Ivy League colleges, working part-time jobs, playing sports, and still managing A and B averages. As pressure as students increases, creativity as people decreases. We spend almost all of our time stressing over memorizing a list of 50 Spanish vocab words or analyzing Shakespeare's words, rather than expressing the information we are given in a creative way. I am honestly not shocked that more kindergarteners are creative than adults. It's no surprise. My theory is that as we get older, we begin to focus on simple things, only the important things that matter to our careers or college. We lose all sense of creativity. Before moving to Burlington, I went to Belmont Day School in Belmont, which has a curriculum that focused on incorporating math, english, and science, and used music and art as a way to learn this information. When I was reading "Johnny Tremain" in English, we made goblets in pottery class to further our understanding of the story. It was fun, and most importantly, we learned something. I just feel that society and the education system today need to realize that as we get older each year, we lose a sense of imagination. Reality settles in, we become duller, and then all creativity is lost.