Competitiveness vs. Cooperativeness of Children
Should we raise more competitive or more cooperative children? Here is my answer.
Today’s children are undoubtedly born into a competitive society. Because the number of people is increasing every day Although the sources and raw materials on earth stay same. This automatically leads all people to be more and more competitive. However, cooperativeness is the key factor for being all in one. That’s why in my opinion, regardless of how much we need to compete, it’s necessary for children to learn firstly to be included, to respect and stay one in society; namely cooperativeness.
A cooperative kid feels included and it is important for a human’s emotional well-being. She can develop self-love (not by means of narcissism) and thus it automatically leads to inner peace. If a person has inner peace, if she feels really valuable, she can be industrious as well. She does her duties with love and automatically the outcome benefits the world. This cooperativeness, also benefits kids’ mindset that he or she starts to perceive individual differences and respect them. In the end, all of them again lead to cooperativeness that the feeling of belongingness and togetherness, and this vicious circle develops and helps to make the whole world a better, peaceful place to live.
The feeling of competitiveness, however, is also an undeniable value. It increases the desire to be better on only the field, to reach goals, and to have the best outcomes. For all types of development, if the level of competitiveness is beneficial of course, it is also necessary to go further. If human beings were a lack in competition, they weren’t motivated to create novelties. They wouldn’t make interventions such as Edison’s lightbulb, Tesla’s electricity, Gandhi’s peace, or Galileo’s astronomic interventions. These are led by competition in order to seek the better. Those people were not only the ones who think in their time, but they had also the feeling of competition as well, undeniably.
In conclusion, like Ying and Yang, the balance of cooperativeness and competition is the key to life. The important part of this is only the level of each feeling. That’s why I support both of them but mostly cooperativeness because it fits civilization, to us.