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. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Cooperation

or

competition

? Two groups of parents holding opposite opinions keep helping their kids in school get

one

of these senses. As far as I am concerned, the latter overvalues the former. The reasons are the following.

Firstly

, the

sense

of

competition

is the core strategy to obtain greater social resources in

this

modern world. Darwin's theory of evolution tells us the kernel of existence is to compete against each other.

Otherwise

, people would lose the opportunity to have children. In

this

more civilised era, resources,

such

as money and social status, are valued the most among human beings and can merely be obtained through

competition

. The more

one

possesses them, the higher the possibility

one

has to get a nice spouse and help

one

's family thrive.

For instance

, my neighbour Xiao Ming did not have the spirit of

competition

at his secondary school. He did not care about his grade in the final exams and

thus

was not accepted by any high school. An urge for survival forces him to start working and no girls like him due to his poor resources. To stop

this

tragedy from happening again, we shall teach our kids how to compete.

Secondly

, the

sense

of

cooperation

is an auxiliary strategy for survival in

this

cruel nature. It is a must for people to know how to cooperate, but it should be

second

to the value of

competition

.

That is

to say,

cooperation

helps people to improve their communication skills and emotional intelligence, but as long as the

sense

of comparison exists in

this

world, it shall not be the main value children should gain.

For example

, my friend Bob was good at history but bad at mathematics. He used to help everyone in class with his best effort in the history assignment and asked them to secretly pass the answers to him in the final exam of mathematics in return.

Nevertheless

, everybody sitting around Bob wanted to beat him in math, and

thus

betrayed him during the exam, which made him get the lowest grade in the class. In conclusion, we are human, and we need to know the tactics to survive in

this

modern society.

Therefore

, I consider the

sense

of

competition

more valuable than the

sense

of

cooperation

.