Some people flunk that a sense of competition in children should be encouraged.

Others
believe that children who aretaught to co-
operate rather than compete become more useful adults.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

There is too much debate about whether children should be learned to be more competitive or coope
rative members of society. In myopinion, both behaviours are important and cooperation is more imp
ortant than competition.

On one hand, as we live in the very competitive society, we need to teach our children the sense of c
ompetition in a positive way. Themost obvious advantage to encourage competition among children i
s that it makes them more creative and open minded and opensthe doors for better future opportuniti
es for them. For illustration, children work hard in the study because they compete with otherclassm
ates to receive high marks, this will help them to get a very good job in the future. Moreover, they be
come more independentand rely on themselves because they know that nobody else will be there to
do their duties.

On the other hand, I believe that cooperation is mandatory to be encouraged for many reasons. First
ly, cooperation helps children tolearn from each other. For example, when I was at school team, I lea
rned how to play table tennis with my friends and we learn alot of skills from each other and when
we play in the final round with other school teams, we get a very good score in the final.Secondly, c
ooperation teaches children the skills linked to sharing, as a result, they become a kind member of s
ociety. Finally,cooperation is the key component for better personality as well as prevent from individ
uality.
To sum up, both cooperation and competition have their own advantages. However, I tend to think th
at cooperation should beencouraged more in children.