Co-operation

Co-operation' means, literally, 'working together', and it has always been a feature not only of human life, but also of the animal, and to some extent the insect world.Birds unconsciously co-operate with each other, and, can be taught to co-operate with man for many purposes. Wolves and jackals hunt in packs, dogs can be trained to control sheep and to act as guards, and to perform tricks on the stage or at the circus. The co-operation of farm animals like horses is essential to primitive agriculture.

In any team game, all the players depend on one another, and in a game of football, the forwards cannot score goals, unless their wings and halves feed them passes.

The 'team spirit', is valuable in many human activities, and is perhaps most marked in family life, in which every member should be prepared to receive help from and give it to the others.Unless, children co-operated with their parents, many of the latter in their old age would suffer from poverty and neglect. And all members co-operate to preserve the good reputation of their family, by avoiding actions which would bring disgrace upon it.

It is a great pity that they are so often ignored.but the mounting toll exacted by the roads in nearly every country is ample testimony to the need for much greater co-operation in this sphere of living.

Doctors can do nothing for patients who refuse to co-operate, anymore than teachers can for students who are too lazy to learn or who refuse to do so.It is quite useless for a sick man to expect a doctor to cure him, unless he obeys instructions with regard to treatment and also actively tries to help himself to get better.

The manufacture of a motor-car may depend on a thousand separate processes, each of which is essential and which must be timed, even in automated plants, to ensure the smooth delivery of the finished product at the end of the assembly line. Modern industry would be impossible without a high degree of the most subtle co-operation.

people, capital and labor, parents and children; must co-operate in the hour of need. In the worst sense, co-operation becomes conspiracy; in the best, unselfishness.