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News Desk
of Argus
The Great Chain of
Competition and Violence
ByJangHo-joon
EditorialConsultunt
S
outhKoreanPresidentParkGeun-hyevisitedanelementaryschoolinSeoulonMarch15andsaidthatacreative
education should be encouraged and can help prevent violence in classes. Officials of Park’s administration
explainedthathervisitwastoclarifyhergoalofmakingchildrenhappythroughthegrowthoftheirdreamsand
talentsthrougheducation.
Itisconsideredthatherrecentstatementshavebeenaimedatserialincidentscausedbyschoolviolence.OnMarch11,
atragedyoccurred.Ahighschoolfreshmancommittedsuicide,leavinganotedetailinghissufferingofviolencebyhis
classmatesinGyeongsan,acityinNorthGyeongsangProvince.Throughtheprincipleofcultivatingwhateachstudent
likesandtakesinterestin,thegovernmentofficialsintendtodecreasetheuseofviolenceinclasses.
People can easily discover violence in almost every social event. There are not only scenes of physical violence, but
alsothoseofspiritualandlinguisticconflict,whichincludethelackofcontact,andargumentswithouttheacceptanceof
otheropinions.Thesephenomenamightariseduetofearthatoneshoulddefeatotherstogetathingoraposition.
Thisfeardominatesthewholesocietywiththeprevailingsenseofownership.Evenindomesticandschooleducation,
educators justify the rules of competition to our children, which unconsciously promotes toleration of violence against
others.Gradesontestsarethemostefficienttooltomeasureeachstudent’srank,whichservesasthestandardofone’s
success. As a result, students consider the ranking system as a natural step, and become insensitive to other people’s
cases.
After graduating from high school, people dream of lives free of struggles against others. Lots of adults, including
twenty years old, search out concepts which can console their mental states from the great chain of competition. By
glancingintomajorbookstores,peoplecanfindsomewordsusedinmostbestsellingbooks.Withsomevariations,terms
suchas“suffering”,“healing”and“dreams”aredominatingthemindsofyouthsinoursociety.
In the daily struggle to live, people realize that they have become used to snatching things from others and follow
the same rules in each new society. Unfortunately, they also learn that books and celebrities encourage them to be
competitiveagainstothers.Pursuingadreamcantriggerthestartofawartofulfillagoalanddenyitfromothers.After
“healing”,peoplereturntobattlefieldsofcompetitionandrepeattheviolentstruggles,pursuingtogetwhatothershave.
ThomasHobbesisquotedfromhiswork“Leviathan”,“Suchawarasisofeverymanagainsteveryman.”
Eachschool’seducationalsystemcontinuouslyinstillsthestructureofownershipandcompetitioninstudents’minds.
PresidentParkdeclaredthatencouragingchildren’sdreamsandtalentscanceasethestrugglesagainstothersingrades
and relationships. Simultaneously, it is said that private academies in South Korea prepare materials which emphasize
interdisciplinary studies according to her statements. Although it is impossible to gauge the overall image of school
policiesinPark’sadministration,cuttingthechainofcompetitionshouldtakeprecedenceoverallotheractivities.
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