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.

There is too much debate about whether children should be learned to be more competitive or cooperative members of society. In my opinion, both behaviours are important and

cooperation

is more important than

competition

. On one hand, as we live in the very competitive society, we need to teach our children the sense of

competition

in a positive way. The most obvious advantage to encourage

competition

among children is that it makes them more creative and open minded and opens the doors for better future opportunities for them. For illustration, children work hard in the study because they compete with other classmates to receive high marks,

this

will help them to get a very good job in the future.

Moreover

, they become more independent and 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.

Firstly

,

cooperation

helps children to learn from each other.

For example

, when I was at school team, I learned how to play table tennis with my friends and we learn a lot 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

,

cooperation

teaches children the skills linked to sharing,

as a result

, they become a kind member of society.

Finally

,

cooperation

is the key component for better personality as well as prevent from individuality. To sum up, both

cooperation

and

competition

have their own advantages.

However

, I tend to think that

cooperation

should be encouraged more in children.