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 "The group is more important than the individual."

I think that the group is more important than the individual because when you are working as a group, you gather more ideas than of an individual, you can learn from each other and train your cooperation skills. As the saying goes, "Two Heads Are Better Than One!" PS: I finally got my internet connected to Wikispaces! Yay! Patwan112

I agree with Patrick that Two Heads Are Better Than One. I do think that the group is more important than the individual because you can learn from each other and get better at cooperating with other classmates and that will help you when you grow up in everyday life. Crystal Mai

I have to agree with Patrick and Crystal because if you are by yourself the tasks you do are much more harder than if you do it with your friends or group. As the say many hands make light work. Another reason why people should work together is because you can learn from each other or make new friends with each other. You can also collect more ideas as a group because the more people in the group the more ideas the people have. P.S Hey Patrick awesome points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have to agree with Patrick and Crystal 'two heads are better than one'. This saying means that two people contributing to a task is better than one person. If a group works cooperately and shares there ideas together because all of the group has different ideas and if you combine the ideas together and learn from your group. Also 'many hand make light work' so if you all work together the task could be finished faster. Groups are more important than an individual as the more people the better in many cases. By:Albert Wong

Good points Albert!!!

I think that the group is more important than the individual, because if you work in a group, than you can gather more ideas from different peoples perspectives. If you work on your own; a) it will take much more time for most people and b) you will gather ideas that are only your own. If you work in a group; then a) it will take up much less time and b) you will gather ideas from different people as well as yourself and different people may look at things from a different perspective. A saying that is commonly used for "the group is more important than the individual" is "Two Heads Are Better Than One".  __P.S PEOPLE STOP COPYING WHAT RICHARD SAID WHEN HE SAID "I AGREE WITH PATRICK AND CRYSTAL...."__

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Patwan112

I believe that the individual is more important than the group, because without individuals you could not make up a group. Also, relying on a group too often can cause people to no longer think for themselves. It is true that groups are important, but each person has their own unique personality, ideas and talents, which is what makes the group work. Therefore you need all different individuals to make an effective group. Each one of us as individuals are more important than any "group". William

William, I do agree with you but one point conflicts with me. You said that sometimes relying on a group can cause people to no longer think for themselves. The thing is that people do think like the people that are thinking for themselves.

Patwan112

I think that the group is more important than the individual, because if you share your thoughts, it may lead to a better result than to if you only had what you thought. Working as a group will also speed up the pace, and a group's work might even be better than an individual's work, having different and possibly better ideas. ~ Alvie

I agree with most people who have said yes. As other people have said "two heads are better than one". The work gets done much faster and people can stop struggling to remember things from long ago lessons because everyone will remember something different. I especcially agree with what Alvie has said. Another thing is that a group can help your social and cooperation skills too. The group is definately more important then the individual. Dana

Tim. 4 eyes see more than 2, 2 heads are better than 1, its safety in numbers, etc.

I think the group is more important than the individual because you can do more in a group. Working in a group allows better ideas, quicker work and more arguments. You might think arguments are //bad// but they are the best way to get you thinking deeply about your topic. However, working in a group doesn't allow anybody to think individually. So when they do a individual activity, they will not do it well. Overall I do think that a group is more important than the individual. //-// Alexander Lin

I agree that an individual is more important than a group because, every individal has there own special ability on something. So if different kinds of people group together the whole group will have all sorts of abilities that they can use. Although at times groups are better than individuals sometimes you musn't forget that __Too many cooks spoil the broth!!!!__ Joyce Chen

WHO JUST DELETED MY DEBATE FOR THE 6TH TIME!PLEASE IF YOU ARE DOING IT IN PURPOSE STOP! CORDELIA  I think both are important but right now I will talk about the individual being more important. As the saying goes too many cooks spoil the broth which means that too many people spoil the thing. Working in a group leads to arguments. Say they had to work out who was the leader or who did this or who does that, it is very possible that it would turn into a big disaster. People everywhere going 'I want to be in charge' or 'I want to do this' or 'I want to do that' so instead of working together and getting lots done, you would argue and argue and argue. But if you worked as an individual, you won’t have that problem because you won't have anyone to argue to apart from yourself and you can't really have an argument with yourself. Also if you work as an individual, you have to do more by yourself that is true but with a group you would have to use everybody’s ideas and that would be more work as you would have to piggy back ideas and that needs to have a lot of thinking about: what ideas work together, does this work, would this make sense ect.-Cordelia 

Group Is more important than individual because y  ou can learn more quickly then trying to teach yourself. When you are in a group, when you argue, you realise something: If you co-operate then, the thing that you are working on, will be a lot quicker. Instead of people screaming on top of hteir lungs, you could get people co-operating(it also saves your voice too)  Grace :)

I agree with the statement "The group is more important than the individual". If you could, would you rather have Albert Einstein resurrected and take place of a bunch of super-smart scientists currently working on a huge project or let things be? Would Michael Jackson have achieved what he did without his father, mother or even Quincy Jones? Could one man have made the advances that society has made together? These are just a few of the reasons that the group is more important than the individual. After all, many hands make light work. - Abhishek

Abhishek, your entry always makes me laugh. Good points! Keep the laughter coming through

I agree with William, the group is not more important than the individual. Imagine if the whole world was one big group, there would be one leader and everyone else would do as they say. This is the same as having ONE individual. Also, if you were doing chatzfest in a group and no one liked each others ideas the slightest bit what would you do? You would argue and argue and argue. You would never get anything done if you did this! This is why I think the group is NOT more important then then individual. Tara.

A group is definately better than an individual. Most of the inventions and technology we have today have been put together with a group of people using each other's ideas, knowledge and experience. For example, a car is put together by a group of people with different jobs such as a designer, an engineer and many factory workers. For these reasons and many more, I think an individual is important but a group of people is much more powerful. LEON YAO©

I disagree with the fact that 'The group is more important than the individual. Have you ever heard of 'Too many cooks spoil the broth'? It is very true because when you have a big group doing a project together, yes, you might get more ideas but not everybody will agree with the different ideas, and that's when the arguement begins. The saying 'Two heads are better than one' might not be true as it depends on the group's overall ability. Maybe the individual has better abilities than the group's overall abilities. Also, if you get in a group, the other members of the group might not be able to help you. Instead, the group will just have a chat, all relying on you or the only person/people who does all the work. Don't forget that 'Too many cooks spoil the broth'. For example, if you're playing a game like soccer, you would need groups and teams to compete with. And when the teams are talking tactics and about who should be where and playing what position, the players might all disagree with the captain's idea and will start fighting against each other just to get the position they want to be. So what the saying 'Too many cooks spoil the broth' means is just that if you get a big group to do something together, people will have their own ideas and when there are so many ideas, people start arguing about them. It's just like when there are so many cooks trying to make a soup together, they will have their own ideas of what to put in. And the result? They either put all the ingredients in or put nothing in because they are still arguing about it, both ruining the soup. I disagree with anyone who says that if you work in a group, it will save time. But how about the arguements? And what about jealousy? When people work in a group, one person can be much better at things than the whole group, then the whole group will start to get jealous. I disagree with everyone who said that 'The group is more important than the individual'. Horace Kuan

I agree with Abhishek, lots of famous people would not be famous if the didn't have the help of others. Groups of people can achieve many things individuals cant. Friends cooperating will get more ideas and they probably would create something better than something made by a individual. People together can fix each other's flaws and can help each other out. In addition the work will be done much faster and will save time. After all, the more people the better. Charles © ™ ® ☺☻

I think a group is more important than an individual because on person cannot do everything. One person cannot be in more than one place at once. With a group you could split up so your group could be at more than one place at once. This could be useful for lot of things. Also, musicians cannot be the singer, the drummer and the guitarist all at the same time. A band is still a group. One person will usually come up with an idea then just use it, if it was a group  there would be more than one idea and the group would see which is the best. One person might not of thought of that because they think differently. I believe the group is more important than an individual. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Laura

I think that the group is more important than the individual because one person does not have all the ideas. If everyone contributes, it could make something ten times better than before. Every single person is especially good at one thing. When I was in year four, our class did a group project and you had to pick three other people to be in your group. We were asked not to pick our best friends, but people who are good at different things. I picked some friends so we wouldn't be fighting all the time, but only the friends who were all good at different things. One of my friends were good at maths, one was good at presentation and one was good at time management.

I would also like to state how I disagree with Tara. If someone didn't like my idea for the Chatzfest, I wouldn't argue and argue. I would compromise and put my ideas together with theirs to form something that everyone agrees with. This is the beauty of working in a group - you put all the ideas together and get one big one that is admirable and has all the aspects of being good. Shenoa

l think that group is more inportant than the individual. This is because if you do something in a group, you can show everyone that you have patience and have the skill to co-operate with other people. And trust me, that is a good skill to learn. Also, l think this because lots of seperate ideas can make a poster or something look better and it will take up less time to do it so that you can get more leisure time. This is why l think that group is more important than the individual. - Raylia-

I think that the group is better than the individual. Even though sometimes the group may fight, they are much better at acomplishing things. My uncle is a champion dragon boat racer. he works in a large group and wins gold. You couldn't have a gold medal in dragonboating with only yourself. Sharing and socializing is much better than being greedy and lonely by yourself. Many famous people and shows couldn't work without the group of helpers doing their own job, each and every one of them. In conclusion, I think that many hands make light work. Vivienne :D