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“Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”
~William Shakespeare.
Every person on the planet has been, or is being, brought up to compete – be it against others or against themselves – and a belief of the “survival of the fittest” prevails. While some people compete to win, some compete to improve. While some people compete to prove their worth, some compete to learn from others and increase their value in the circles they move in. For whatever reason a person may have for competing, one thing remains constant: In competitions, something is always gained.
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Schools would oftentimes host friendly concours as a way to recognize the efforts made by their students. This is probably where scholastic rivalry roots from – which school can earn the most number of gold medals. But through it all, the main goal of any contest is to foster sportsmanship and camaraderie. Competitions are an important factor of one’s upbringing because it is where a person learns to do better than the other participant or his or her last performance. Entering into competitions provides an avenue in which one grows and strives to be better; it caters to man’s unending desire to perfect himself. Educational institutions, like Deerfield Academy and North Central Texas Academy at Happy Hill Farm, believe that education is not just about the lessons one learns within the four corners of the classroom, but also the lessons that can come from anything and everything that surrounds the learner.
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