Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminati..

Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
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In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?

No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?

It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html

When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there is no
score kept.

Your thoughts????


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>
> Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
> intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
> an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
> already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
> winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
> when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
> to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
> believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
> It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
> that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
> ________
>
> In Praise Of Competition
> By Burt Prelutsky
> I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
> competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
> morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
> games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
> self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
> have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
> bunch of underachievers?
>
> No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
> field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
> who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
> And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
>
> It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
> competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
> ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
> stealing or back-stabbing.
>
> (...)
>
> http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html