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 competition.
There is a saying that "Leaders are born, not made". Besides this statement, there is alot of scholarship on leadership such that it (leadership) is studied at higher institutions. This implies that preparation for leadership is important and I mostly agree that the optimal means to prepare the youth for leadership is to build in them the ability to cooperate, not compete. I make this proposition based on two reasons although I concede that there could be situations where a sense of competition is imperative.
Firstly, leadership inherently involves working with other people. "No man is island" especially a leader. A leader needs to be willing to learn from others, share ideas and experiences as well as take corrections. Hence, the ability to cooperate (i.e. work with others) with others becomes necessary because one who is unwillingly to cooperate would be unlikely to be a good leader. An example is an authoritarian person who assumes leadership positions and make decisions by his/herself and refuses to listen to counsel or cooperate with other well meaning persons/leaders. The ultimate result would be negative consequences for the establishment, institution or society. Hence, imbibing a sense of cooperation in young people is a better means of getting them ready to lead.
Secondly, leadership is a collective responsibility. There is no leader if there are no followers. Thus, apart from the need for one to have a the trait of cooperation with other leaders, cooperation is also required for proper leader-follower relationship. To illustrate, a leader who does not have the ability to cooperate will be unlikely to be able to listen to his/her followers and hence would most likely not be a good leader. Cooperation builds a sense of harmony and trust which enables the achievement of the general good whereas competition could engender rivalry and discontent.
Nevertheless, instilling the trait of competition over cooperation maybe necesssary in cases where it is evident that the sense of competitiveness may help improve performance. In particular situations where the ability to push and acheive set targets is lacking in a specific person(s) maybe due to low morale and lack of zeal, zest or passion, then forging an atmosphere of competion rather than coopertaion maybe be preferable.
In conclusion, leadership is an important skill that needs to be developed and this cannot be over-emphasized. Trait such as cooperation that can help young people become leaders should be imbibed in them early.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, firstly, hence, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, then, thus, well, whereas, apart from, in conclusion, in particular, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2153.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 404.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32920792079 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25147199591 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519801980198 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 688.5 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3930501056 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.65 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.9 5.21951772744 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252415166515 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.077813215348 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0709294348626 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142107114526 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449604422906 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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