Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students toexcel in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limitsthe quality of real learning.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns withyour own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. Indeveloping and supporting your position, you should address both of the viewspresented.
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The speaker talks about a controversial topic about pros and cons ofcompetition for high grades at school. Some people uphold the idea ofcompetition because it can bring motivation to students so that they can have abetter command of knowledge. Nevertheless, some other people concur with thepoint that this kind of competition impedes real learning. From my point ofview, we should take the action that we encourage students competing with eachother, but we are not supposed to value students' grades too much.
Surely if fiercely competition between students sometimes works wellbecause students would be confronted with much pressure so they are more likelyto study more instead of being full-time party animals. Students are supposedto be people who help with the society moving on. What we want students do issimply to master some professional skills at school and apply them to lubricantthe society in the future. Therefore, students should feel the burden andresponse on their shoulders and study more. In this sense, competition is anice way to "press" students into knowledge. Surrounded bycompetitors, students will always feel others' exceeding them so they have themotivation and be prepared to make great efforts. In this system where studentsseeing their ranks up and down, they will learn or review things back and forthinvoluntarily. Hence, a brighter and promising future will be in store for themas well as the whole society.
Inversely, others will claim that such kind of competition can causetremendous harm to students because it can dampen the quality of their reallearning. This opinion holds if the competition is too fierce and sometimes itis out of control. For one thing, students under extreme pressure are likely tocause nervous breakdown or even suicide. For the other, students will thinkabout more things like how to make others learning worse so that theythemselves will become relatively better. This will no doubt abstract studentsfrom learning real things and even make others learn less. As time goes by, theunhealthy society will gradually step into a vicious cycle, and eventually, thesociety will go to the end.
Taken together, a combination of the two sides of points, which means stayon a proper intermediate point, will better the situation. On the one hand, wehave to exert some pressure to students which will keep them away from beingobsessed to computer games or being party animals. They will be willing tostudy and get used to spend a proportion of their spare time in the libraries.On the other hand, we have to have a control of this kind of competition. Weare not going to drive students crazy about being scientific geeks. Once freefrom severe competition, students will have time to do some things they like,such as learning some intermediate computer skills or volunteering in acommunity. Making use of their spare time, students will not only refreshthemselves and polish their resumes, but also broaden their outlook and learnto be responsible to the society. For this end, a proper equilibrium point betweenthe two extreme sides will make the education system perfect.
A healthy and promising learning milieu among students needs to beachieved in the society. But whether we should force students to compete witheach other need to be comprehensively analyzed. It's obviously that neither ofthe two extreme sides is not that perfect and will be counterproductive; so abalance between them an ideal status that we need the most. As for where themost profitable situation we should be, we need to do more things andscrutinize many other factors and then carry it out. | 
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