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Essay Number 10
Some people think that children should learn how to compete, but others think that
children should be taught to cooperate to become more useful adults.
Express some reasons for both views and give your own opinions.
It is a highly debatable issue whether children should learn to compete or co-operate in
order to become productive citizens of society. In my opinion, both competition and
cooperation are necessary virtues of life and children should learn both. What is more
important is to teach children where they need to compete and where they need to
cooperate.
Competition is very important in life. Children can be taught to compete when they prepare
for the exams or when they play solo sports like athletics. They have to learn to compete to
excel in studies or win a race or any athletic event. This virtue comes handy in adult life. For
example, when they do any business, they have to compete with other businessmen to
succeed in business. Definitely, successful businessmen are useful adults in society.
On the other hand, there are many fields where cooperation is needed. Children can be
taught this virtue in the sports field when they play team sports like cricket and hockey.
They can also be taught cooperation when teachers give them group assignments in studies.
This virtue also makes them useful adults because they have to cooperate in many fields of
life. For instance, when they work as scientists to research the treatment of diseases like
cancers and AIDS then it can never be a one-man show. It has to be a joint effort. Software
developers also have to work as a team to bring benefits to all of us who use technology
nowadays.
There are also situations where both competition and cooperation are needed
simultaneously. For example, when children do team sports, they learn to cooperate with
their team members and at the same time they learn to compete with the opposite team.
Similarly, in adult life they have to learn to cooperate with their country-men to compete
with those of other countries. We all know that today’s era is highly competitive and the big
planet Earth has shrunk to a global village. For example, Indian auto industries have merged
to compete with the German and Japanese industries. So, competition and cooperation go
hand in hand.
To put it in a nutshell, I pen down saying that, it is clear that children should be taught both
– to compete as well as cooperate and more importantly where in life they have to apply
these attributes.
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