There is no doubt that these days a lot of schools focus on teaching children how to cooperate with their peers in classrooms. This paper will investigate two different arguments, where the first one argues that teachers should encourage children to compete with their peers, while the other one believes that children who cooperate with their peers become better adults in the future. Eventually, I will make a comparison between both arguments and draw my own conclusion. In terms of some views, some parents believe that a positive competition among children is useful. The main reason provided to support this claim is that when children have a sense of competition, it pushes them to do better in their studies at school. To illustrate, if teachers encourage their students to score high grades during the exams, the students will start competing among each other to score a higher grade, in order to satisfy their teachers. This is because teachers have a significant impact on their student...