Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
BoAnother 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 really crucial in engineering and science disciplines, and it used to be an area where future employer stakeholders and professional organizations were telling colleges that we were FAILING our students in a pretty much EPIC fashion by setting them up to "compete" with one another rather than viewing learning as a potentially collaborative experience without winners and losers.

Another problem is that you view superiors in the company hierarchy as threats because the goal is to become CEO as fast as possible and those people are in your way.