The Danger of Competition.

Schools vary greatly in their competitive natures. Sixty-three percent of the students from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, for example, feel their classmates are extremely competitive, and most say they study very hard. On the opposite end, Yale University School of Medicine has a unique evaluation system in which there are no grades. This system produces an extremely non-competitive atmosphere. It is up to us to decide whether competition is healthy or unhealthy. However, …

… a system that ensures that some always do better than others, a negative aspect is that success is not always based on either talent or hard work, but on opportunity. Many bright and talented poor people work extremely hard but have never had the opportunity to get an education. On the other hand, many rich people who lie on their backs and enjoy their underserved wealth have as many as opportunities as they want.