The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition.

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The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition.

The mammoth task of effectively training tomorrow's minds is, to a large extent, not different from setting the course for a country's future prospects. Cultural differences notwithstanding, the attitude that youth develop towards competition is a decisive factor with respect to their work ethic later in life. While instilling both cooperative and competitive behaviours each comes with its own merits, an umbrella approach of only inculcating one of these two is not completely warranted.

In spite of a genial learning environment creating a conducive atmosphere for children by encouraging collaboration, they would be left unprepared to handle challenges of adulthood. Additionally, a certain amount of healthy competition is essential to prevent stagnation of learning enthusiasm, especially in cases where competition among students is discouraged. Competition, at its core, provides a strong incentive for high achievement among peer groups due to social pressures. Leadership roles require dealing with challenges on a day-to-day basis, and surely not all of them would be resolvable through collaboration.

As a case in point, consider the education system in South Korea. Following more than a decade of intensive schooling, a nationwide entrance examination is conducted and only the best students get through to pursue higher studies at elite insititutions. Similarly, Japan encourages academic competition (granted, it is sometimes seen as excessive), right from the high school level in order to ensure a high passing average among students. The blatant drawback of these countries' systems is the increased incidence of mental health issues among students at the cost of being one of the most highly educated nations.

On the flip side, European countries like Germany and France do not see learning as a competition - in fact, discourses among children are encouraged to develop unique perspectives which, otherwise, may not have come up individually. The effectiveness of this system needs no testament as the global impact of these countries on research is widely known. But, ignoring the competition has hindered students of these countries from arguably having a commensurately significant footfall in the highest levels of global organisations, such as the World Bank, IMF, or UN.

The fact of the matter is, at the highest levels of bureaucracy and white-collar professions, competition is inevitable. Enmity among peers and workplace politics are prevalent even among common nine-to-five jobs. Any country denying so by neglecting the competition factor in their education system is only shooting itself in the back. A healthy degree of the competition should be encouraged from a young age. However, this should not be at the cost of developing teamwork skills that are equally essential in workplaces. Competition creates incentive, and cooperation teaches essential soft skills.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, similarly, so, still, thus, while, in fact, such as, in spite of, with respect to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2485.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 439.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.66059225513 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21244673879 2.79657885939 115% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612756264237 0.4932671777 124% => OK
syllable_count: 774.9 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2967601458 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.25 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.95 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0820011161588 0.243740707755 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0266035388497 0.0831039109588 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0317097633184 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0470487082362 0.150359130593 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277458828178 0.0667264976115 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.8420337079 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.55 12.1639044944 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.0 8.38706741573 119% => OK
difficult_words: 148.0 100.480337079 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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