Q. Some people think that a sense of competition in children should be encouraged. Others believe that children who are taught to co-operate rather than compete become more useful adults.
Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.
A. A controversy between competition and co-operation is often said these days. Although all people grow up with many competitions and co-operations, it doesn't mean that these have the same values in people's lives.
There are advantages and disadvantages in both of the arguments.
First of all, in some societies, there are so many competitions, and also people instigate these.
For example, in Korea, the majority of students have their own tutors to learn extra studies
to win others in exams(competitions) for entering famous universities.
Entering famous universities equal getting many opportunities in the rest of their life.
They will be tutors to teach high school students, getting nice paid. After they graduate universities, they will get huge opportunities from many nice firms.
So people think that studying hard to win in competitions is the way of success.
That's why many people in Korea instigate competitions and regard it as their goals.
But, there is a problem here. Because they have been studying so hard for only themselves, they become selfish. When they work with their co-workers in a firm, people usually work selfish
because they've been living to win competitions so they don't know how to co-operate
with others. Of course, they will be taught how to collaborate with others, but it'll be
hard to get used to it and they will have to wait enough time for that.
In conclusion, competition is important to children for enhancing their abilities.
abilities. But co-operation is much more important, because eventually they will have to collaborate with others. They will be estimated by collaborations and it will decide how their careers go well. Therefore, parents and teachers should teach children to co-operate rather than compete with others.