The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competitiveness.
To lead people, one must be willing to cooperate with those we are leading. But it also involves us being competetive with others; a leader who does not compete with others cannot be a good leader. As such, preparing young people for leadership is a difficult task as it is hard to know what to prioritize, being competetive or instilling a sense of cooperation. However, instilling both these traits is essential for a good leader, although our focus must be more on cooperation rather than competetion.The reason for this is that even in the most competetive events in human society, cooperation is much more essential.
This is evident in events like competetive sports, which at the minimum require a cooperative effort between a player and their coach(es) in solo events, and requiring the cooperative effort between multiple players in the case of team events, where worse teamwork might lead to defeat. Sure, competetive nature helps, but without a cooperative effort, victory is impossible in these events. Even in other competetive areas like academic olympiads, cooperation between the student and his mentor is essential to success in addition to his own effort. If the world's most competetive events require the cooperative effort of multiple people for success, then any event less competetive also requires the cooperative effort of multiple people for success.
This is seen even more so in the case of leadership roles. A good leader who listens to his followers(for lack of a better term) is going to be more efficient compared to a bad leader. For example, democratic countries are more successful compared to any other form of government because these take into account the opinions of all its citizens in one form or another, thus being far more advanced compared to other government types. Other governments fell because their monarchs or dictators did not listen to their people, tried to supress their freedoms and opinions, and in the end not only failed to do so, but lost their power too in the process. As such, listening to subordinates is essential to a leader. Even in industries, the most successful ones are those that listen to thir employees' greviences, attempt to fix them, and provide comforts to them. These industries achieve groundbreaking success only through this method, the best example being Ford motors run by Henry Ford. It was the first mass production factory that also provided the first weekend holidays and other benefits, thus becoming the biggest car producer of its time.
Some might argue that in business fields, competetiveness is essential to success, and shpould be prioritized over cooperativeness, as in the case of the free market, where one's success is inherently the failure for another. But this is not necessarily the case. Companies like Standard Oil, the biggest oil manufacturer in USA in the early 1900s were broken up due to their malpractices and illegal methods of improving profits like railway rebates. And this still does not change the fact that a leader needs to lead his subordinates, and cannot succeed without them. In the case of markets, the subordinates are the employees, poor treatment of who would lead to bad results. Even companies like Standard at its heyday respected their employees' as the ones essential to run the companies smoothly.
Thus, being competetive does not mean we cannot cooperate with others.In conclusion, a person needs to be taught to be both comptetive and cooperative and the lack of either one of these traits would lead to failure. As such, I agree that we should prioritize cooperativeness, but disagree that we shouldn't teach competetiveness to youngsters, and thus only partially agree with the viewpoint.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 287, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this take' or 'these takes'?
Suggestion: this take; these takes
...to any other form of government because these take into account the opinions of all its ci...
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Line 7, column 174, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...s in the case of the free market, where ones success is inherently the failure for a...
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Line 7, column 756, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...heyday respected their employees as the ones essential to run the companies smoothly...
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Line 9, column 227, Rule ID: EN_GB_SIMPLE_REPLACE
Message: I is a common American expression, in British English it is more common to use: I
Suggestion: I
... traits would lead to failure. As such, I agree that we should prioritize coopera...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, still, then, thus, for example, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3124.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 609.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12972085386 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96768813016 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91164075074 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47619047619 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 971.1 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.77640449438 676% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.9088971602 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.166666667 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.375 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.19958043383 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.053072492145 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0633036657503 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103986065508 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0632031289088 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.