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Originally Posted by tracilicious
Everyone is born with a natural desire to learn and succeed. It is often driven out of them by the conditional acceptance of those around them. With support and unconditional love, I believe every child will do their best in everything they want to do.
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I disagree pretty strongly with this.
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Why does it have to be about winning or losing? My question is not, should one person win musical chairs or should everyone, my question is why musical chairs? Wouldn't it be a more fun game, if instead of everyone trying to snatch a chair and one person being sent away, all the kids try to fit into the remaining chairs?
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No, I don't think that would be a more fun game. Not that musical chairs is all that fun. But why does it have to be one or the other?
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Why are we drilling competition and the need to "win" into kids at such a young age? What's the point of that? I don't see it as anything but destructive.
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I'd say it is because competition is a biological imperitive of our species and we might as well teach people to do it well, to do it with dignity, to do with within certain confines of "honor" or "good sportsmanship." To handle it appropriately when you don't win, and more importantly when you do. How not to let disappointment put you into a spiral of despair, how to persevere despite it.
I spend almost every single day being paid to "defeat" other people. I do it by working cooperatively with many people. They are complimentary, not contradictory skills.