Natural Selection VS Human Collaboration

In Week 5, the readings is surrounding about Cooperation and collaboration. Articles (Johnson & Johnson, 1994; Sapon-Shevin et al, ?.) started their articles by claiming the importance and goodness of collaboration. I think their viewpoint is more close to the humanity perspective to discuss how collaboration can contribute to individual and the society development. It’s close to the altruism.

Coincidentally, the 200th birthday of Darwin is on 2/12. In his theory, he claimed the so called nature selection. From my narrow interpretation, it seems a strong theory to support the competition in pushing the human being's development. So from the extreme standing point, people may argue "why schools need to urge for collaboration or cooperation? It's against the nature law.... Why not just let students to compete, sooner and later, they will figure out a way to survive in the end because it how human being survive on the earth past million of year's evolution "

But I think this saying is very strong and controversial. I want to hear how people think about this. Johnson & Johnson in 1994, around 15 years ago claimed for the need of cooperation during schooling. But until now, competition and individual works are still the dominant learning patterns at school system and even in many contexts outside schools.


Share some links in the below
NPR related news about Darwin 200th birthday
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100379229
Darwin in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin



ps my first idea is written in Chinese...this is easier for me to capture concepts in time
hummmm ...so....I have a question...in Chinese we say 適者生存不適者亡
那人類之間的互助合作行為是不是違反所謂的達爾文的演化論了
或者是達爾文的演化論有其盲點 ...在自然界有所謂的社會互助行為
人類就是在這裡不同 現在所謂有些比較不好的基因或是在社會偏狹定義中較弱勢的一群
或許是人類生存的轉機...這或許很難懂 ...但是我就是比較偏向理想主義...互助合作不然一起亡...to swin or to sink together...to survive is not only through competition...
to meaningfully cooperate..it's hard..but worthy doing so...but the actions require shared vision, commitment and practice..