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In today’s grade-conscious society, it is of
great worth to discuss teaching either competitive sense or team work to kids.
While some people suggest that making children
competitive should be more inspired. I believe that most young people who were
taught how to work together with others will be more useful and co-operating
ones when they grow up.
To begin with, if children are too focused
to win, they might not care about the process which actually gives lessons for
life for children. For example, I took part in a science study group when I was
12 years old for national science contest. Even though the study group members
studied together, we could not be friends. The one of the main reasons why we
could not be friends is that we were longing for winning. Specifically, since
we all participated the contest, every member was more likely potential rivals.
In retrospect, we could have enjoyed
studying together instead of being competitive to each other.
However, the benefit of being competitive
in peers is that they could be able to know what their academic or work level
by having a sense of competition. Because they need to be developed to win
which is the main purpose to compete by recognizing their levels.
On the other hand, other people insist that
we should teach children how to co-operate for becoming helpful adults.
It
is no doubt that children who are familiar with working with others are more
willing to help other people and have a strong people skill.
Furthermore, people skill is the one of the mandatorily
required skills for becoming a leader.
In conclusion,
although both perspectives have acceptable points in deciding whether teaching
children how to work together or compete, I take the view that a sense of
team-working should be encouraged for children to be more valuable adults in
the future.
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