Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
But my experiences as a teacher would indicate that practices which support competitiveness rather than cooperative learning environments-- on balance, I mean-- leave a greater percentage of students WORSE off than before.

Another reason to support change to a more cooperative model is that students don't wind up viewing future colleagues as "the enemy" when they need to learn how to work in teams.

This is always my point with competition. It just made me alienated and anti-social.

It really didn't help me to view my classmates as existential threats.

It's pretty anti-social and tends to viewing the world as a conflict of all against all.