Non-competitive
Is it just me or are a lot of us kids who were brought up in apparently non-competitive environments HIGHLY COMPETITIVE NOW! What does it mean, anyway - to be 'non-competitive'?
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
3 Comments:
I think it was about the structure of school activities, rather than individual efforts. Rather than holding public competitions where children were shown to succeed or fail, each child was encouraged to do their best at all sorts of activities (none of which were constructed around the idea of competition which requires failures to work). That seemed to be the case at the Montessori school I went to anyway. Sports day at the state school I later attended certainly reinforced the value of non-competitive sports for me, oh the humiliation!
what happened at the sports comp then?
i came last, always
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