Imagine your class is playing a game for the fastest problem solver. You sit in your seat as the teacher counts down from five; you push past your limits so you can beat your classmates. You try your hardest and win excited that you beat your challenger. Now Imagine you're sitting in math class and your teacher tells everyone to do some review problems. As your mind wanders off you're not learning or picking up anything the instructor is saying, because why would you need to listen when you already know the drill. But, while you aren't listening, the teacher describes a new formula. You are asked to answer a question but are confused by the classmates before you; without the new knowledge you become frustrated and fail. Learning the new formula is even harder the next day, as the teacher can't stop to inform you of the basics and simply continues on. The latter seems to be most kids in school; a student will ignore the teacher because they think they know everything that is being taught to them. Ignoring the teacher causes a student to miss important information and for them to start failing in a class. This is happening because the students don't have something to work for or learn about. Now if the teacher threw in a game where the students competed against each other, they …show more content…
Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti once said, "'Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.'" This is not true because the 'competitive spirit' drives someone to work harder and helps them focus on one idea. Teens and kids alike drive for adrenaline rushes where they can feel their blood pumping and trying to beat a fellow classmate really drives that through. When the competitive spirit is gone kids become bored and their minds wander off; they don't learn anything if they don't listen. They feel unmotivated to try hard for something that they think doesn't
There are people who are not as motivated, they are often referred to as the underachievers. However, once they have someone to compete with, they are more likely to become motivated to improve and excel. This is where competition serves as a healthy motivator. There is a friend who was exhausted of being constantly compared to his overachieving older brother. This caused him to start studying and working harder in order to become just as good as his brother. The situation showed how he did not need to bring down his older brother in order to be just as successful. Competition serves its purpose, when one finds themselves competing with themselves instead of their competitor. When one is competing with themselves, they are allowing themselves to grow and improve to become a better person. They do not have to compete with someone else, nor degrade others success in order to make their achievements seem exceptional.
Lastly, in youth competitive sports you can learn how to win and lose politely, which is important to the feelings of your competitors. Even though teens can learn these skills in school and in their household, competitive sports provide another way for children to interact and experience how to use life skills in the real world. Another example from the article, “ Pros and Cons of Sports Competition at the Highschool Level,” it
Students spend a huge chunk of their lives in classrooms; the type of classroom helps or hinders them in life. Each student and teacher have reciprocal power; "reciprocal power enables teachers and students to undermine any attempt at domination by a single person in the classroom" (Pauly, 57). Students often use reciprocal power when they want to disrupt the class, screaming that they do not want to be in the class or do not want to learn. It is the teachers ' job to take that power back and show the class who is in charge of the classroom before all mayhem breaks
Kids need to compete and aim for first place, and when they lose, they must hold accountability. This is a natural element everywhere in the world because competition is what drives people to surpass and innovate. Without an incentive for competition, evolution will come to a halt. If the competitive nature were to be removed, it would be the same as robbing the kids of the brighter future they would have achieved by overcoming obstacles. Even though “self-esteem is a big part of one’s childhood”, kids should also be taught to perform under conditions where they are not always confident or energetic.
With competition, people have incentive to improve. Last fall, my father had the idea for the two of us to have a competition and see who could do more sit-ups by the end of the year. This would be part of my offseason baseball training and his normal exercise. We were both doing hundreds of sit-ups a day, and I eventually won. In the end, we were both the winners because this was very good exercise for our body, which probably would not have been done without the competition. At the end of each of my basketball lessons, my coach and I would play a short game of one versus one. At first, he would always win. I grew tired of always losing to
Within recent decades, college has become a more easily available path than it has been for the past generations. In a current news release, The Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that, “Of the 2.9 million youth age 16 to 24 who graduated from high school between January and October 2014, about 68.4 percent were enrolled in college in October” (BLS Economic News Release from April 2015). When a student graduates high school, most of them intend to continue on to college. They have the idea that, while there, they can break away from all the general classes and just focus on what they want to learn. However, for almost all students, they find that this is not the reality. Just like high school, they find that they have to take approximately two years in general studies in order to attend and graduate with the major of their choice. General education classes should not be required because a majority of the information learned has already been covered in past years. Most of the courses do not benefit a student 's major, and the total amount of required hours for these classes can become a big waste of time and money.
What is freedom of speech? Some will say it is a right to Americans given by the First amendment, some will say it is a right which allows us to say and expresses anything we want. Everything is true. Yes, right of freedom of speech is given by the government to the people allowing them to say and express what they want. But do you really think that we are that “free” to say and do anything we want? I don’t think so. Government is placing limits on right of ours. They are telling us what you should or should not say or do. But do you think it is justifiable?
Healthy competition can drive people forward. Allowing a kid to doing what they want because they enjoy it can open them up socially by allowing them to reach out and teach others that don’t have that same niche. If we force a child to be overly competitive, this decreases the child’s ability to grow in other areas in life because they are too focused on being the best. If they don’t live up their standards of being the best, this will cause the child to be insecure about their abilities and they will constantly seek approval. Unhealthy competition can detrimental later on in life when trying to get into a great school, find a partner or in getting a job.
Koreans have always believed in a unique “Korean” identity, meaning they have a shared bloodline or a common ancestry. In the past, blood purity and ethnic homogeneity were core ideas of national identity, however as South Korea has become more modernized they are losing their ethnocentric ideal and instead have begun to refer to their country as, “the land of opportunity.”
Competition produces anxiety, which can interfere with learning and disassociates with one’s own body. It is not instinctual because it is taught and it damages people and creates stress in their life. Competition teaches people to give their worst while they only focus on what their fellow mate is doing. I agree with Rubin that “competition limits people’s ability to lead happy and satisfying lives”, for I am assured that competition is destructive to children’s self-esteem, it interferes with learning, sabotages relationships, and isn’t necessary to have a good time.... ...
The first fact holds that the more we allow the children and ourselves in rivalry, the better it is. Factors show that competition builds character and produces excellence. The second fact admits that in today’s society we get too caught up with being “Number One”, which the society pushes the youths too hard and way to fast to become winners. But they really insist that competition can be healthy and fun if we keep it in perspective. This can be very true at points.
There is a misconception that competition is bad, if a child can experience the thrill of winning and the disappointment of losing, they will be well equipped for the reality of life. Competition provides stimulation to achieve a goal; to have determination, to overcome challenges, to understand that hard work and commitment leads to a greater chance of success. Life is full of situations where there are winners and losers; getting a job; a sports game; not getting into a desired college. People need to learn how to cope with disappointment and then to look forward to the next opportunity to try again. Competition also teaches us to dig deep and find abilities we never knew we had. The pressure to win or succeed can often inspire more imaginative thinking and inspire us to develop additional
As more colleges are silencing opinions their students believe are offensive, some are arguing they are becoming too restrictive to free speech. On one side, some think students need to feel secure in their classroom, away from any comments that may trigger anxiety attacks or cause them real, psychological harm. Others believe because college is an academic setting, where students are supposed to be exposed to new information and ideas, limiting speech in any form takes away from the students’ education. While college should be a place where students can be challenged and exposed to new opinions, no student should feel unsafe or threatened in their classroom. By placing only necessary and small limitations on free speech, college classrooms can remain an open and challenging environment, without inflicting harm on any students.
Throughout history there has always been competition. This competition has many times helped advance human society, for example the space race where we sent men to the moon, countries trying to get the best tech which improves the quality of life for many people, or company's competition to get the most money but having the best product. Competition has been with us for as long as humans existed and is a part of everyday life for everyone around the globe. Even our economy is based on competition. I believe competition is good for students. Competition is good because it makes students try their best to do better than everyone else. Also competition will tell students what they're good at, which will help them decide what career to do and