Question

'The growing level of competition is good for the development of teenagers.' Give your views for or against the proposition.

Answer 1

Good morning honorable judges, teachers, and my dear classmates. I deem it as an opportunity to express my views against the motion i.e. 'The growing level of competition of competition is good for the development of teenagers. I, being a teenager, have been made to experience this growing level of competition at every stage, every year and at every place. Such is our education system! If we are able to take all the pressure of the rising competition, we have to possess qualities of a superhero. Can each one of us have those qualities?

Parents, teachers and their expectations, good universities and their cut-offs, courses of our own choice and the courses offered, all together are more than enough to lose one's calm if he is not a superhero stuff. My worthy opponents talk in a vein as if it is easy to get marks in the nineties. They perhaps base their study on assumptions. If twenty percent of the students are able to score well, can we generalize? It's easier said than done and scoring close to hundred percent falls in the same category. 

If we don't stand anywhere in the merit, we pass each day with a guilt of not coming upto the expectations of our parents and teachers. Parents feel their investments have not yielded good returns and teachers feel that we have spoilt their result, hence the name. After such allegations, the little courage we are left with also goes away seeking admission and pendulating from one university to another. After all these tribulations, only a handful are able to make it to a good college and the rest are bound to be labeled as 'average', Does my audience still feels that the growing competition is good.

I agree with Sandhya Sahni that competition can be healthy. A competitive atmosphere instills in students to do better than others and prove themselves. But that happens only when the competition is healthy. Same as the amount of salt in the flour, i.e. in a moderate quantity. Exceeding levels of salt render bread inedible. Similarly, exceeding competition also makes students either too careless or too hesitant. Many students suffer from lack of self-esteem due to competitions and end up being self-destructive. Others, who are labeled stop bothering about the competition and become negligent, so much so that they turn passive about their own career.

To conclude, I would request the authorities who take decisions to eradicate this virus of competition fro our education system and every student to develop the potential he is most apt at during his education. I also thank my audience for being a patient listener.