Some people think that a sense of competition in children should be encouraged. Others believe that children who are taught to cooperate rather than compete become more useful adults.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Whether children should be taught to compete or cooperate with others has long been a heatedly debated issue for educators and parents, and both sides seem to offer compelling arguments.
Those in favor of competition argue that competition is one of the realities children will surely face when they grow up. For children to survive in an increasingly competitive world, they would have to wise up to the idea of competition and its implications. No matter it is to land a dream job, or apply for research funds or fellowships, or get promoted in a company, competition is inevitable. This means that students have to excel in their studies and work and know how to exploit a set of tactics whenever possible in order to win out. The best time to teach children, argue proposers, would be when they are still malleable.
Others see more value in teaching children cooperation rather than competition. While there are many instances where competition is manifest, cooperation is more important and lack of it may result in disappointment and ineffectiveness. In far too many occasions, people have no choice but to cooperate with each other to get work done, because no matter how competent individuals are, complex tasks often require different backgrounds and skill sets, not to mention in some cases teammates have to work together across different time zones. It is unthinkable that a group of people who lack a sense of cooperation can perform their tasks satisfactorily.
In my opinion, an effective education should give greater weight to cooperation, because humans have an inherent notion of competition, whereas cooperation requires an awareness and nurture. Also, a cooperation-focused education does not mean that individuals cannot strive for excellence, but rather that they should be more considerate, compassionate and mature. A world full of such individuals is welcoming for everybody.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, still, whereas, while, in my opinion, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.3376753507 216% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1607.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25163398693 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16805584104 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601307189542 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7445251385 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.615384615 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5384615385 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76923076923 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269029537409 0.244688304435 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0927342711967 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694069108636 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157061563128 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457344073074 0.056905535591 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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