Almost every day of the week, you can read stories about encouraging children in the rivalry in newspapers. In fact, this issue has aroused much controversy among parents and people working in educational environment. Some people reckon that competitive environment is lucrative to the pupils; on the other hand, others have debated the idea that educational system should concentrate on collaboration. Therefore, this is not an easy question to answer, However, in this essay both controversial sides of this argument are going to be discussed.